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WW2, 2000s: Welcome to the Wildflowers of Dorset….
The Wildflowers
What you need to know before your trail
Tony and Althea Wilde. Glamorous, argumentative … adulterous to the core.
They were my parents, actors known by everyone. They gave our lives love and colour in a house by the sea – the house that sheltered my orphaned father when he was a boy.
But the summer Mads arrived changed everything. She too had been abandoned and my father understood why. We Wildflowers took her in.
My father was my hero, he gave us a golden childhood, but the past was always going to catch up with him … it comes for us all, sooner or later.
This is my story. I am Cordelia Wilde. A singer without a voice. A daughter without a father. Let me take you inside.
Travel Guide
Dorset
Dorset (c) Google
“The abandoned house covered in bindweed and brambles didn’t look like anything much, when first glimpsed from the lane”
“But after the two men had struggled through the the tangled mess of wild flowers and creepers surrounding the house, they came upon a porch. the steps where blackened with rot; on the porch itself rested a long-abandoned cane chair, bleached silver grey by the wind and the sea and chained to the decaying floorboards by the tendrils of a pink and sage Virginia creeper. Below came the shingling slap of gentle waves and when you turned towards the sound of the sea there was Worth Bay, curving away from you,cream-yellow sands turquoise water, chalk-white rocks in the distance.”
Dorset Jurassic Coast
Dorset is known for the Jurassic Coast, as the cliffs contain many fossils, and rock formations which show millions of years of geological history. Two natural sights to see include Durdle Door, an ancient stone arch and Lulworth Cove with its layered cliffs. For the best beaches head to Poole, Weymouth and Swanage .
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Wildflowers
Destination : Dorset Author/Guide: Harriet Evans Departure Time: WW2, 2000s
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