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Please go to Paul Theroux.com's new site, Paul TherouxFree Computer Help Forum On a narrow London street the sweet-shop crackles with color. Red-ribboned
chocolate boxes are piled high, trays of glazed fruit and bins of
glistening candies ring the Christmas tree. Above the shop the cozy
rooms are home for white-haired Mrs. Mutterance and for her
“children,” young Amy and Wallace. And around the shop, over the whole
of the city, drifts the greatest blizzard London has ever known. For
the children it means sliding down Latchmere Hill on tea trays, for
Mrs. Mutterance a sudden recollection of her own long-ago Cockney
childhood.
But there is
something else. Only the day before, the surly landlord, Snyder, had
threatened to evict the little family from shop and home. Now Snyder
has vanished. Is he lost in the snow? What should Mrs. Mutterance and
the children do for the man she scornfully calls “Beanwit”? The answer
is both exciting and heartwarming. |
