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    Haven

    By Richard Noble

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    Tommy Wayne delivers papers, meets a dog called Plato and learns about the natural world in a special garden
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJul 24, 2014
    ISBN9781291961034
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      Haven - Richard Noble

      Haven

      Haven

      By

      Richard Noble

      Copyright

      © Richard Noble 2014

      All rights reserved

      First Edition

      ISBN – 978-1-291-96103-4

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Contents

      Chapter 1 – Tommy Wayne delivers papers

      Chapter 2 – Alan and Mary

      Chapter 3 – Plato leads the way

      Chapter 4 – Tommy goes to university

      Chapter 5 – Mr and Mrs Polesden

      Tommy Wayne delivers papers

      Tommy had been delivering the free local paper down Camelot Way for several weeks and was now more confident. It was always on Thursdays after school when he picked up the bundle of papers in his wicker shopping trolley he had been given by his mother and he started at the end with the large oak tree and finished at number 84, which had the silver Porsche in the drive.

      He had decided to go out delivering every Thursday afternoon whatever the weather so that he had a fixed

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