So begins a very rough, cold, soggy and dangerous week, with thrilling misadventures and some spectacularly dangerous flood-water rescues. What's more is the telephone wires and the electricity are out. The children arrive soaked, exhausted, and frightened to find the house locked and empty. Their parents, coming separately (the children are coming from their respective boarding schools with their pets in tow), are, in theory, already at home at the house and set up for Christmas. Lincoln, Miranda and Pinks, alongside bull terrier Oliver Cromwell and Siamese cat Sheba, manage against some odds to get from Victoria Station to the flooding village of Duckford before a landslip cuts off the railline, and along (dangerously) flooded roads during a gale to their rented holiday home 'Little Topsails'. as Lions in the Woodshed), 1954 Ī survival story of three siblings, their dog and their cat, set in rural Somerset during a historic flood.
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