“Tom felt sweat trickle down the back of his neck under his shirt as he listened to the thud of earth clods on wood, watching as the gravedigger flung spadefuls of soil onto the plain coffin. Tom thought of the good days, when his father was still there. But now his father had gone and his mother was dead.
“Left alone, rubbed his knuckles into his eyes and wiped his nose on his shirt sleeves. The grave was filling fast, the sweating gravedigger anxious to finish the job and get home.”

In the early 17th century we meet orphaned Tom. His mother, before she died, told him he should go the Scrooby, the village where she was born. There, he would meet the Separatists, good, kind people who would look after him.

Should he join the Separatists – the Pilgrim Fathers – on their journey to the New World?

Eleanor Watkins has written many books for Scripture Union, the most recent being the Dangerous Road.

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ISBN: 9781844273737
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: SCRIPTURE UNION - published 08/05/2009
Format: Paperback