Catriona felt the journey towards understanding, the challenge of life beginning. She felt thanks to Sammy, that she had managed to get herself on the right track.
It would be nice to see Sammy again. Friends were so important. Friends were the links in the lifeline to which she must cling.
Yet, at the same time, thinking of Sammy brought depression and memories of the air-raids and the deaths of neighbours and good friends and her own son.
Sadness spread out and encompassed all the other mothers’ sons and all the other neighbours all over the world, the unknown hundreds, thousands and millions. She felt overwhelmed by the tragedy of war. And she was afraid of what tomorrow might bring. But she struggled with the fear and suddenly into her mind came the text:
‘Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.’
It seemed a revelation. She had strength enough for one day.
She relaxed back against the pillow and a breeze from the open window made golden cobwebs of her hair.
Her steady gaze studied a bird floating free in the sky outside; small and delicate yet powerful; swooping and circling, climbing triumphantly, higher and higher.
Catriona smiled her secret smile to herself.
One day was all she needed.
Other B&W titles
by Margaret Thomson Davis
THE NEW BREADMAKERS
THE TOBACCO LORDS TRILOGY
A DARKENING OF THE HEART
THE DARK SIDE OF PLEASURE
BURNING AMBITION
THE GLASGOW BELLE
LIGHT & DARK
WRITE FROM THE HEART
A DEADLY DECEPTION
GOODMANS OF GLASSFORD STREET
RED ALERT
DOUBLE DANGER
THE KELLYS OF KELVINGROVE
Margaret Thomson Davis is the author of over forty novels, the best known of which is The Breadmakers, first published in 1972. It was described in the Daily Express as, ‘a Glaswegian Coronation Street’ and by the Sunday Mail as, ‘Gripping and poignant’.
Her work has ranged from bestselling Glasgow family sagas to crime thrillers, to her autobiography, Write From the Heart.
Copyright
Omnibus edition first published
by B&W Publishing 1993
This Edition first published 2012
by Black & White Publishing Ltd
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This electronic edition published in 2012
ISBN: 978 1 84502 560 1 in EPub format
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First published in Great Britain in 1972, 1973
The Breadmakers © Margaret Thomson Davis 1972
A Baby Might Be Crying, A Sort of Peace
© Margaret Thomson Davis 1973
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