FL is my favourite of the holiday books. I liked when I first read it as a child, and was hugely pleased to find it in a library sale many years later.
Picking up on some of the points made in the comments:
My impression was always that Jon was some years younger than Geoff. As someone else said, in his thirties. I think that comes from the fact that Rowan calls him by his name and not the more formal 'Cousin Jon' and speaks to him more as if he's a contemporary of hers than of her parents.
I wonder how frequently Geoff and Jon had met in the last ten years or so? What with the War, Trennels not being available for family get togethers, and them serving in different branches of the forces, possibly overseas.
On the entail, there might have been other brothers between Great Uncle Lawrence and Geoff's father, who might have had sons, all of whom would have come ahead of Geoff in the entail.
There's no good way to hear bad news, but I think given the choice Nicola might have preferred to hear it the way she did. She hates having her emotions on show and this way she had a chance to get herself together before she had to deal with Ann being Ann, Ginty being Ginty and Lawrie being Lawrie. Peter had probably had enough of it all too, which was why he sloped off to be on his own, or find Nicola, who could be relied on not to fuss.
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FL is my favourite of the holiday books. I liked when I first read it as a child, and was hugely pleased to find it in a library sale many years later.
Picking up on some of the points made in the comments:
My impression was always that Jon was some years younger than Geoff. As someone else said, in his thirties. I think that comes from the fact that Rowan calls him by his name and not the more formal 'Cousin Jon' and speaks to him more as if he's a contemporary of hers than of her parents.
I wonder how frequently Geoff and Jon had met in the last ten years or so? What with the War, Trennels not being available for family get togethers, and them serving in different branches of the forces, possibly overseas.
On the entail, there might have been other brothers between Great Uncle Lawrence and Geoff's father, who might have had sons, all of whom would have come ahead of Geoff in the entail.
There's no good way to hear bad news, but I think given the choice Nicola might have preferred to hear it the way she did. She hates having her emotions on show and this way she had a chance to get herself together before she had to deal with Ann being Ann, Ginty being Ginty and Lawrie being Lawrie. Peter had probably had enough of it all too, which was why he sloped off to be on his own, or find Nicola, who could be relied on not to fuss.