Eliza Vandas Button Box chapter sampler

hands. ‘I don’t mind a bit of noise. I’m here to work, not sleep. Now, let’s see …’ Leaving her bags where they were, she put her hands behind her back, pursed her lips, and paced along the row of cabins. Slowly she moved past Shell’s pink door, Dune’s yellow door, Seahorse’s pale orange door, and Driftwood’s door of soft grey. ‘They’re all the same inside,’ Milly murmured, following her anxiously. ‘Ah, but it’s how a place feels that counts, isn’t it?’ said Eliza Vanda. ‘I like the way the door colours go with the names.’ Milly felt a little thrill of pleasure. When she’d first come to Tidgy Bay, the cabins just had numbers and their doors were dusty brown. She and Rory had spent ages deciding on the names and door colours, but most people didn’t seem to notice them. She’d been just five when her father sold their city house to buy Spindrift and the Tidgy Bay cabins.

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