A few days passed, then a week, then a fortnight.
A man of great mental endurance.Īfter a month the stranger vanished. A man of great concentration, Peel concluded.
Peel would watch from his window as the man hunched over the motor for hours at a time, his back poking from beneath the bonnet. The first thing Peel noticed was that the stranger liked old objects. In the storage shed he found a pair of ancient Zeiss binoculars, and at the village store he purchased a small notebook and ballpoint pen for recording his watch report. He settled on his bedroom window, which had an unobstructed view over the creek. Like any good surveillance artist, he required a fixed post. Because he was eleven, and the only child of divorced parents, Peel was well schooled in the art of human observation and investigation. Peel decided the best way to begin was to watch. Peel had little to do that summer-when Derek and his mother weren’t making clamorous love, they were taking inspirational forced marches along the cliffs-so he determined to find out exactly who the stranger was and what he was doing in Cornwall. The stranger arrived two days later, settling into the old foreman’s cottage just up the creek from the oyster farm. He and his mother moved into a ramshackle cottage at the head of the tidal creek with her latest lover, a struggling playwright named Derek, who drank too much wine and detested children. There are no deliveries on Saturdays, Sundays or Bank Holidays.By coincidence Timothy Peel arrived in the village the same week in July as the stranger. These times are an estimation, not a guarantee. These delivery times are the maximum delivery periods that a purchase can take to reach our customers. Standard Delivery: Free (2-4 working days) Express Delivery: £2.49 (reduced rate, 1-2 working days)Įxpress Delivery: Free (1-2 working days) Standard Delivery: £2.99 (2-4 working days) Express Delivery: £4.99 (1-2 working days) If any items are missing from your delivery, please allow 2 working days for the rest of your order to arrive before contacting us at of our books are 100% brand new, unread and purchased directly from the publishers in bulk allowing us to pass the huge savings on to you! Items from our extended range section are dispatched separately. We sometimes split orders between multiple parcels. Please note orders are only processed Monday-Friday. The orders go into our warehouse to be picked, packed and consolidated into one parcel where appropriate. We aim to process and dispatch our orders within 24 hours.
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