Synopses & Reviews
As their Uncle Rudolph threatens to deprive them of their beloved World's End, the Fielding children - Tom, Carrie, Em and Michael - try to earn the money to buy it themselves.
But money disappears as fast as it comes in, and it is not until the children are at the point of despair that their home is saved in a dramatic and exciting climax.
Read the adventures of the Fieldings. Also available: The House at World's End, Summer at World's End, World's End in Winter.
Synopsis
With their parents away working on a boat in the Mediterranean, Tom, Carrie, Em and Michael have learnt to look after themselves and their menagerie of animals at home in their sprawling house. As their Uncle Rudolph threatens to deprive them of their beloved World's End, the Fielding children are determined to earn the money to buy it themselves.
Now that the school has burnt down, the children have more time to find work, helping out with deliveries and at the zoo. But money disappears as fast as it comes in, especially when there are thirty-nine mouths to feed, and time is running out if they want to save their home.
First published in 1973, Spring Comes to World's End is the last instalment in The World's End Series. For further adventures with the Fielding children, read The House at World's End, Summer at World's End, and World's End in Winter.
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About the Author
Great grand daughter to Charles Dickens, Monica (1915-1992) was born into an upper middle class family. Disillusioned with the world she was brought up in - she was expelled from St Paul's Girls' School in London for throwing her school uniform over Hammersmith Bridge - Dickens then decided to go into service, despite coming from the privileged class; her experiences as a cook and general servant would form the nucleus of her first book, One Pair Of Hands in 1939.
Dickens married an American Navy officer, Roy O. Stratton, and spent much of her adult life in Massachusetts and Washington D.C., but the majority of writing continued to be set in Britain. Her book of 1953, No More Meadows, reflected her work with the NSPCC and she later helped to found the American Samaritans in Massachusetts. Between 1970 and 1971 she wrote a series of children's books known as The Worlds End Series which dealt with rescuing animals, and to some extent children. After the death of her husband in 1985, Dickens returned to England where she continued to write until her death aged 77.