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Captain Jim

Mary Grant Bruce

Book Overview: 

This book is about Norah Linton, her brother Jim, her father David and Jim's chum Wally from Australia. They all move to England during WWI because Jim and Wally want to fight in the war.

When a Irish friend of the family dies, Norah inherits a big house in Surrey: Homewood. To keep up the Irishman's memory they want to use the house to help the war effort. They turn it into a home for "Tired People"--soldiers recovering from injuries, or soldiers on leave that have no family to go home to, can come here to have a good time and enjoy the country-side, so that they can go back to their regiments fully rested and restored.

Unfortunately Jim and Wally are soon called upon to fight, leaving Norah and her father to take care of the Tired People.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . a side entrance, and the driver was struggling with a stout iron trunk. The passenger, a tall, angular woman, was standing in the doorway.

"The housekeeper!" breathed Mr. Linton faintly. "Do you feel equal to her, Norah?" He fled, with disgraceful weakness, to the billiard-room.

"Good morning," Norah said, advancing.

"Good morning," returned the newcomer, with severity. "I have rung three times."

"Oh—we're a little shorthanded," said Norah, and began to giggle hopelessly, to her own dismay. Her world seemed suddenly full of important upper servants, with no one to wait on them. It was rather terrible, but beyond doubt it was very funny—to an Australian mind.

The housekeeper gazed at her with a sort of cold anger.

"I'm afraid I don't know which is your room," Norah said, recovering under that fish-like glare. "You see, we've only just come. I. . . Read More

Community Reviews

One of my favourite books. A reread, of course, as I've read all the Billabong books before, but this is one of my favourites of this superlative series. I love the way it balances both characterisation and pacing; tightly and well plotted, with the perfect balance between points of view, allowing t

I'm not sure how this made it onto one of the lists of classic books I have but it doesn't belong there. The story was entertaining enough and I even shed a tear at the appropriate time but it wasn't something to be preserved for the ages. Perhaps good for a glimpse into the lives of those in Englan