Jeremy and Hamlet

There was a certain window between the kitchen and the pantry that was Hamlet's favorite. Thirty years ago-these chronicles are of the year 1894-the basements of houses in provincial English towns, even of large houses owned by rich people, were dark, chill, odorful caverns hissing with ill-burning gas and smelling of ill-cooked cabbage. The basement of the Coles' house in Polchester was as bad as any other, but this little window between the kitchen and the pantry was higher in the wall than the other basement windows, almost on a level with the iron railings beyond it, and offering a view down over Orange Street and, obliquely, sharp to the right and past the Polchester High School, a glimpse of the Cathedral towers themselves. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. The story of one year, the eighth, in the life of a happy, normal but imaginative little boy, growing up with his two sisters and his dog, Hamlet, in the Cornish cathedral town of Polchester-by-the-sea, thirty years ago. A delightfully humorous chronicle, told with an affection and understanding which mark it as autobiography.