Sarah Wimperis – illustratör

Why was this feeling of regret so familiar to her? Why must she always wish she had done something different?

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There is a whistling sound behind us. Shells pass overhead and explode in a sheet of flame a hundred meters away.

‘It wouldn’t be pleasant sharing my flat with a dead body, but there was nothing else I could do.’

‘It seems pretty clear to me that sooner or later we’ll be at war with Germany, whether we like it or not.’

A bright flash of lightning lit up the darkness and showed me the horrible truth – the stairs came to a sudden stop, and if I had taken onemore step I would have plunged to my death upon the flagstones far below.

Dr Livesey opened up the folded paper – it was a hand-drawn map of a small island. My heart raced as I saw the three crosses in red ink, and next to them the following words: 'Most of the treasure lies here'.