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    Tommy's Cave
    Tommy's Cave
    Tommy's Cave
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    Tommy's Cave

    By George Hughes

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    Orphan Tommy is passed from pillar to post and is so unhappy with his latest strict foster family where he is not allowed to make friends and escapes to find something better in the world.

    Dreaming of streets paved with gold, he wanders along and his food runs out and he is befriended by an older street urchin in the big city, where he learns of a different existence in a peaceful group.

    But there's trouble brewing with another, more bullying group of street kids who want everything for nothing and move into their camp and scatter them to the wind.

    He eventually finds a cave in the middle of nowhere that suits him down to the ground, but the one thing he is lacking is company, someone to talk to, so he sets off back into the city again in his search for companionship.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGeorge Hughes
    Release dateJun 5, 2013
    ISBN9781301473465
    Tommy's Cave
    Author

    George Hughes

    I'm an everyday English fellow in his late 60's who has a passion for model engineering in steam and writing.

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      Tommy's Cave - George Hughes

      TOMMY'S CAVE

      By

      George Hughes

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      Tommy's Cave

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      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are a production of the author’s imagination and are used totally fictitiously.

      Other books by George Hughes:

      Samson lets Rip - A child's story about life on the canals from a child's point of view.

      Heaven Can Wait - An adult story following the life after death experiences of an 18 year old lad.

      Building an Easy Boiler - A free, easy to follow modelers construction guide to building a working live steam boiler.

      TOMMY'S CAVE

      Tommy was unhappy.

      He was really unhappy living with the Meldrop's.

      He'd been moved about from one foster home to another for most of his nine year life and the latest one was absolutely the worst of the lot.

      He'd been happy in the last

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