This is a beautiful, sensitively told story of love and loss and of a special relationship between grandfather and grandson.
Jake loves playing in Grandad's workshop. One autumn day, Grandad teaches Jake how to chisel his name in a piece of wood, and afterwards they go to the park. Grandad shows Jake the tree that grew from an acorn he planted when he was a boy. Jake goes off to buy ice-creams and returns to find Grandad on the ground. The ambulance arrives. Mum and Jake go home without Grandad... Jake grieves for his grandfather all winter. But Grandad has left him his workshop and Jake wants to make something special. With Mum's help, he does - a plaque for the bench under Grandad's tree. It is spring; for the first time in months, Jake feels happy.
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Addy is settled in a small town in rural North Lincolnshire. She has one husband, three children and six stick insects. She runs writing workshops, teaches in a special school, and writes, writes, writes. Addy enjoys walking up hills, reading, cycling down hills, talking to her family and friends and picking blackberries.
More about Addy FarmerAddy Farmer was born in Northern Ireland and as a child moved all over the country going to lots of different schools. After university she dabbled in film-making before settling down to work in bookshops. Now, when she is not working as a special needs teacher, she writes stories, which is her favourite occupation. She lives in a village near Scunthorpe wit
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