Their mother has merely told them that she must help her father, a keen astronomer, watch Halley’s Comet. Their grandfather, who is an apothecary, stays in as well, and his shop is visited by no one with the exception of young Burch, the son of the haberdasher, who does errands for him. When they get there, to the intriguing Cupola house, the girls are told that they must stay indoors, keep curtains drawn and be seen by no one. But when Nancy and Violet leave with their mother as usual, Nancy finds to her surprise that they are not headed to school but to Bury St Edmonds-to visit their grandfather who they had been told was dead. Violet’s father and Nancy’s stepfather is a solicitor while her mother (and the girls) try to do their bit for the suffragettes. As the book opens, we meet twelve-year old Nancy Rivers and her seven-year-old sister Violet preparing to leave for school.
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