The new bakery
An original fiction passage set in the nineteenth century.
Mr Harland said his daughter’s new bakery was her affair and he had no wish to hear about it. At breakfast he asked whether the first batch had sold. On his way home he took the longer street past the shop. He stopped outside to read the hand-painted opening notice, then brushed a fleck of flour from his coat. “I was merely passing,” he told his neighbour.
Identify one sentence which suggests that Mr Harland cares more about his daughter’s bakery than he admits.
456 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE English Language 1.3 Content: prose fiction study requirements, covering 1.3.1 Read challenging prose fiction for the unseen 19th-century extract. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.