A CHILDHOOD IN TWENTY BOOK COVERS - NIGHT OF THE FOX BY JACK HIGGINS
4 – Night of the Fox by Jack Higgins Sometime around 1983, my Uncle Jack and Auntie Marge bought a caravan and rented a permanent pitch on a small caravan site just 7 minutes drive from Bridlington sea front (a 15 minutes walk away from Sewerby village). The caravan site was very tiny indeed: horseshoe shaped, with room for around 25-30 caravans and tents. *1 An ablutions block stood to the right hand side (as you go into the camp) with toilets and showers. *2 At the far end of the camp, over the hedge, was the railway line that passed through Sewerby and then onto Bridlington Station, along which trains would occasionally rattle passed. My aunt and uncle’s caravan sat on this site all year round, on a pitch that was halfway up the left hand side of the site , pretty much directly opposite the ablutions block. It wasn’t a big caravan - maybe 7 metres by 2 metres – but just about every shelf and overhead cupboard was stacked full of paperback books. Uncle Jack was a big reade...
