Pigeon Summer
by Ann Turnbull · July 1992
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Mary's father has left home in search of work; her mother is struggling to feed a hungry family. But Mary's thought turn increasingly from present troubles to distant dreams, carried on the wings of Speedwell, her father's racing pigeon, bound for France and - just maybe - for racing glory.
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