"The House with the Grape Vine."

A boy seeks out a house and grapevine mentioned by his father when remembering his own difficult and lonely childhood but he is captured by the current owner, an old hag who threatens him with the police: "that is why he too hated that house and, because of it, loved his father so much more." In the Evening News (May 5, 1954), The Watercress Girl and Other Stories (1959).

ID: 
b252
Title: 
"The House with the Grape Vine."
Genre: 
Story
Page Count: 
9
Word Count: 
ca. 2200
Publisher: 
Evening News
Year of Publication: 
1954
Topic: 
Boyhood
Fathers
Rushden