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A Pocketful of Borrowed Weather
Young adults

A Pocketful of Borrowed Weather

At seventeen, June can sell eight minutes of sunshine and mend a loose lining. Looking after her aunt Agnes’s weather and repair shop for three days should be simple. Then she puts twelve careful stitches into an old blue coat, and rain starts falling indoors. The coat belonged to her grandfather. Understanding what he made will take more than undoing her own work. With a portfolio to prepare, a friend planning to leave and Eli’s future taking shape beyond the harbour, June has other things she cannot keep neatly in place. A warm, wry young adult fantasy about practical magic, making things and learning when to ask for help.

About 3 hr 59 min · 54 chapters

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Novel · 54 chapters · 50,058 words

Available languages: Nederlands, English

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On the morning our shop began raining indoors, I sold a woman six pounds' worth of sunshine she intended to use against her sister.

“Eight minutes,” I told Mrs Pelling, setting the yellow packet on the counter. “Open it beside the plants. Not above them.”

“My sister's get eleven.”

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Chapters · 54 chapters
  1. 01Sunshine, with an Ulterior Motive5 minutes
  2. 02A Boy Asking for Rain5 minutes
  3. 03Twelve Neat Stitches5 minutes
  4. 04The Return Address5 minutes
  5. 05Rules for Small Weather5 minutes
  6. 06The Good Scissors5 minutes
  7. 07Six Weeks to Make Something5 minutes
  8. 08An Ordinary Roof5 minutes
  9. 09The Name Before the Name4 minutes
  10. 10Saturday Weather4 minutes
  11. 11Where Salt House Had Been5 minutes
  12. 12Mae Hart Declines the Weather5 minutes
  13. 13A Proper Small Breeze5 minutes
  14. 14What Bex Was Asking4 minutes
  15. 15A Man with a Tape Measure5 minutes
  16. 16Nine Beginnings5 minutes
  17. 17Rain in the Reading Room4 minutes
  18. 18The Place with the Torn Screen5 minutes
  19. 19A Good Place to Nearly Kiss5 minutes
  20. 20Agnes's Blue Mug5 minutes
  21. 21A List of Things Not Yet Done4 minutes
  22. 22The Night We Borrowed Warmth5 minutes
  23. 23Good News from Elsewhere4 minutes
  24. 24What I Can Promise4 minutes
  25. 25The For Sale Sign5 minutes
  26. 26Frost on the Marigolds5 minutes
  27. 27A Hundred Little Favours5 minutes
  28. 28Away Does Not Mean Against You4 minutes
  29. 29The Other House5 minutes
  30. 30The Weather We Actually Had4 minutes
  31. 31An Unhelpful Apology4 minutes
  32. 32Listen to the Wrong Note4 minutes
  33. 33The End of the Sleeve4 minutes
  34. 34Letting Agnes Sail4 minutes
  35. 35No More Dry-Weather Guarantees4 minutes
  36. 36The Empty Cinema4 minutes
  37. 37The Work That Is Mine5 minutes
  38. 38The Return Box4 minutes
  39. 39The Long Way Round4 minutes
  40. 40A Forecast Nobody Ordered4 minutes
  41. 41What You Can Keep4 minutes
  42. 42The Night before the Fair4 minutes
  43. 43Doors Open5 minutes
  44. 44Three Cups of Rain5 minutes
  45. 45The Smallest Safe Place4 minutes
  46. 46The Seam That Wouldn't Give4 minutes
  47. 47All the Wrong Weather5 minutes
  48. 48The Last Ordinary Minute5 minutes
  49. 49After the Applause5 minutes
  50. 50Things People Brought Back5 minutes
  51. 51A Letter with My Name5 minutes
  52. 52Not the Same Shop5 minutes
  53. 53The Bus That Arrived Anyway22 minutes
  54. 54For Whatever Comes Next7 minutes

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