Remember Miranda

Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She is going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children's father, and their grandmother, and their aunt. She meets Nick, the farmer who lives across the fields. But she doesn't meet Miranda, the children's mother, because Miranda is dead. She died two years ago, and Cathy cannot learn anything about her. Everybody remembers Miranda, but nobody wants to talk about her...(https://www.fahasa.com/)

Remember Miranda

Rowena Akinyemi

Oxford University Press

2000

Abstract

It is Cathy Wilson’s first job. She is going to live with the Harvey family, and look after the two young children and the house. Cathy’s parents are dead, and she has no brothers or sisters. She wants to be happy in her new home, but she is sometimes lonely. Duncan, the children’s father, is often away in London. Cathy likes the children and she likes old Mrs Harvey, Duncan’s mother, but she has no friends.

Of course, there is Nick, the farmer who lives across the fields. He has very blue eyes, and a warm, friendly smile. But it is not easy to be friendly with Nick, because Duncan hates him, and old Mrs Harvey gets angry when Cathy goes to dinner with Nick.

But why does Duncan hate Nick? Why does Nick tell Cathy to be careful at Beach House? And why does nobody want to talk about Miranda, the children’s mother, who died two years ago? There are a lot of secrets in the Harvey family and Cathy begins to ask questions.

Soon she begins to find the answers. And she learns why everybody remembers Miranda…