There is a story, well known, of the Changi Quilt and the women who pieced it. There is another story, less of the monkey that brought peanuts to a woman in at the end of the world. The monkey's name was Puck, and the woman Una Meredith. This is the story of Puck the monkey and Una Meredith and of how, after the Second World War ends, they put their family back together. Twice.
In the 1920s, Carl and Una Meredith set off to Singapore. They go for mission work, but over twenty years later, they've stayed for the lives they've built. But when World War Two looks towards the Pacific, that choice to stay turns dangerous...
'All at once, far in the distance, I saw a long, silvery, glistening wave breaking over them' -it wasn't only the steps of Ingleside the waves broke over when war broke out. Set in Toronto and taking Rilla of Ingleside for it's source, here is an account of the Fords, of Ken, Persis, Leslie, Owen and those around them, during the years of the Great War.
Revised. This is the story of Diana Blythe's time working for the Harris family at Hillside, wherein the children prove too adult and their parents to absent for life to be straightforward.
A glimpse of Rosemary's first romance with Martin Crawford. For one reason or another that story has always haunted me, I have always wanted to read more of it than the details supplied to Anne by Miss. Cornelia in Rainbow Valley, and having sketched them I thought I might be daring and send them out into the world.