“They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?'
'It was books, admitted Miss Minton.
And Maia said, 'Good.”

—  Eva Ibbotson, book Journey to the River Sea

Source: Journey to the River Sea

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British children's writer 1925–2010

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