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- ID
- b252
- Title
- "The House with the Grape Vine."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 9
- Word Count
- 2200
- Publisher
- Evening News
- Publication Year
- 1954
- Topics
- Boyhood, Rushden, Fathers
A boy seeks out a house and grapevine mentioned by his father when remembering his own difficult and lonely childhood but he is captured by the current owner, an old hag who threatens him with the police: "that is why he too hated that house and, because of it, loved his father so much more."
In the Evening News (May 5, 1954), The Watercress Girl (1959).
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