Escape from Shangri-La

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Michael Morpurgo. Escape from Shangri-La

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CONTENTS

1 A BIT OF AN OLD GOAT

2 WATER MUSIC

3 BARNARDO’S BOYS

4 THE PRODIGAL FATHER

5 NOWHERE MAN

6 AND ALL SHALL BE WELL

7 SHANGRI-LA

8 THE LUCIE ALICE

9 GONE MISSING

10 DUNKIRK

11 THE GREAT ESCAPE

12 EARLIE IN THE MORNING

13 MESSAGE TO MY FATHER

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The question clearly troubled him. He seemed reluctant to answer, but when he spoke at last he spoke very deliberately. ‘Cecilia,’ he said. ‘She was called Cecilia.’ Then he was looking at me and beaming. ‘Of course. I didn’t think of it till now, Cessie. That’d be after your grandmother, wouldn’t it?’

He was right. He’d been right about everything. I felt a warm shiver creeping up the back of my neck. My grandmother had been called Cecilia, and I had been named after her, I’d always known that. There was a photograph of her on top of the piano in the sitting-room. She was young in the photograph, somehow too young for me to have ever thought of her as a grandmother.

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