Wilma Widdershins and da Muckle Tree

Wilma Widdershins had lots of secrets. Most of them were about driftwood. She lived in an island where there wasn’t any wood – except for what the sea threw up on the shore. Wilma Widdershins and her neighbours went beachcombing every morning, looking for bits of fish boxes and logs and battens and spars. This is the story of how Wilma Widdershins found the biggest bit of driftwood ever; how she brought home ‘Da Muckle Tree’ in the third winter of the Second World War; and what happened many years later, after the Huppies phoned the woodyard in the far town.