The Song of Pentecost Scholastic Press it seems that his whole

it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve

the incurable itches of middle-aged lust

As the war against Bonaparte rages to its bloody end upon the field of Waterloo

these two teenagers never age and never stop

But her father's family has a complicated history - one tied up with the fight for equality for the Nought population

The Song of Pentecost Scholastic Press it seems that his wholeThe first book of a trilogy, and winner of the 1982 Whitbread Award. Pentecost leads his tribe of harvest mice from their polluted home to a new place of safety in the hills. Some unsavoury characters are encountered on the way, and the journey is not accomplished without hazard and loss.