Shadows of the Past: Foreshadowing

By Maggie Cobbett

A working holiday in France for so little? “It sounds too good to be true,” says Daisy’s mother, but her warning falls on deaf ears. This short prequel to ‘Shadows of the Past’ reveals how three English schoolgirls are drawn into a sequence of events beyond their parents’ worst nightmares. Old sins have long shadows and nowhere more so than in the village for which their daughters are heading.

A prequel to the novel Shadows of the Past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Maggie Cobbett
• Release date: May 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463028070

Maggie Cobbett

Yorkshire born and bred, although much travelled, Maggie lives on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales in the little cathedral city of Ripon. Much of her writing features her own colourful past and/or love of family history.

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Shadows of the Past:

Foreshadowing

Maggie Cobbett

Dedication

To my old teachers and classmates at Lawnswood High School.

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Shadows Of The Past

Details of Shadows of the Past, the novel to which this is a prequel, can be found immediately after the end of Foreshadowing.

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New Beginnings

September 1964

I’ve made it! thought Daisy Dobson, throwing herself onto the squashy old sofa by the window and then wishing that she hadn’t. Her appendix had come out at the start of the summer holidays and the area around the incision was still a little tender. Just the same, satisfaction was written all over her face as she thought about the two years ahead. No more slogging through subjects that she didn’t care for, a few free periods each week and access to the Sixth form common room. Life couldn’t get much better than this.

It seemed a million years since she and a hundred or so other girls from all over Leeds first entered the school, although in truth it was only five, and she couldn’t believe how much it had shrunk since that September morning. Then it seemed vast and Daisy wondered however she was going to find her way round its long corridors, all looking much the same to a newcomer. Now she could have done it with her eyes closed. The assembly hall with its