A Fortnight in August
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Set in 1972, A Fortnight in August is a simple account that follows a large family of limited resources as - through humor and togetherness - they deal with loss, logistics, anticipation, and bad weather during a summer holiday in a small seaside cottage in Cornwall, England.Everything is lined up and ready in the hallway: a pile of suitcases and holdalls stuffed full of summer clothes, hats, sandals, towels and toiletries, a plastic football, a cricket bat, stumps and bails, tennis balls, badminton racquets and a couple of shuttlecocks, Julies hula hoop, a pile of library books andassorted comics and magazines. And then there is the food: wooden crates and plastic carrier bags filled with bottles of milk, cartons of eggs and bags of flour. There are multiple cans of Spam, sardines, pilchards, tuna fish, salmon and Fray Bentos corned beef. Tins of Heinz baked beans, tomato soup and spaghetti hoops. Two bottles of Heinz salad cream. Ambrosia rice pudding and mixed fruits in syrup. There are jars of Marmite, lemon curd and Robinsons marmalade. Shallow jars of Shippams salmon fish paste. Sachets of Angel Delight. Packs of Jell-O. Loaves of Mothers Pride sliced whitebread. Packets of crumpets. Three bottles of Robinsons undiluted orange squash, two bottles of Ribena. A jumbo box of Tetley tea bags. Jars of Cadburys drinking chocolate and Horlicks. A two-pound bag of Tate and Lyle white sugar. Columns of Rich Tea and Digestive biscuits. Two rectangular packs of Jacobs cream crackers. A McVities Jamaica ginger cake, a Battenberg cake, a couple of boxed trays of Mr Kiplings cherry and almondbakewell tarts. Several packs of Penguin chocolate biscuits. Boxes of Tunnocks tea cakes. A huge block of cheddar cheese. A stack of half a dozen carton wheels of Dairylea soft cheese triangles. Bulky but lightweight boxes of Kelloggs Rice Krispies and Cornflakes. Weetabix, Ready Brek and Farleys Rusks. Then runner beans, protruding sticks of rhubarb, cucumbers, heads of lett
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