I was a rat! ...or The Scarlett Slippers Bodley Head Despite the raging war

Despite the raging war

And while money is no object

this unique collection gathers a wealth of curious objects and surprising stories to trace the story of love through the ages

unprepared for

But now he's back from a stay in Florida

I was a rat! ...or The Scarlett Slippers Bodley Head Despite the raging warI was a Rat! Roger insists, and insists . . . In fact, when Bob the cobbler and his washerwoman wife, Joan, find the young boy abandoned on their doorstep, these are the only words he says. And he does have ratty behaviour, it's true. Staying with Bob and Joan, however, Roger learns quickly to behave more like a human child. They try to find his parents, but the orphanage, police and hospital all have nothing on their records about a lost boy in the