Shannon, 1946. A letter from a smudged Johannesburg address. Three words in ST's handwriting: Not yet. Wait. He is alive.
Shannon, 1946. A letter arrives from a smudged Johannesburg address. Inside — ST's handwriting. Two words: Not yet. Wait.
He is alive. He knows Daphne went to Wales. But two women read those same two words and come to very different decisions. This is where Daphne's arc closes — and where the next generation's begins.
Five years after Wales, a letter reaches Shannon from a smudged Johannesburg address. Inside, in handwriting Daphne hasn't seen in years — ST's own — three words: Not yet. Wait.
He is alive. After everything — the trunk, the map, Johannesburg, the letters, the Congo flower, the valley in Wales — ST is alive, and he knows exactly what Daphne has been doing. He knows she went to Wales. And his answer, after six years of searching, is two words: not yet.
Daphne is not the only one to read those words. Another woman in the family reads the same letter and reaches a very different conclusion about what 'not yet' means, and what should happen next. For the first time, the Clue Keeper and the What Would YOU Do? question belong to two people who don't agree — and the reader has to decide who's right.
Book 6 closes Series One of the Hughes Chronicles — six books, six years, three continents — and ends with the disagreement that opens the door to Series Two, where the trail passes to the next generation of the family in Book 7 — The Brothers.
Not Yet closes the first half of the Hughes Chronicles — six books that follow Daphne from age fourteen to adulthood, across South Africa, Wales and the edges of the Congo. It's written for the same family read-aloud audience as every book before it, ages 8 and up, but it also works as a satisfying stopping point: families who started with Book 1 will find Daphne's own story brought to a real conclusion here, even as new questions open up. For families looking for a family book series for multiple generations — one that can be picked up again when Series Two begins with Book 7 — Not Yet is both an ending and a beginning.
The Hughes Chronicles is based on a true family story. ST Hughes was real. Daphne was real. The trail is real. The locations are rooted in real history. Where the story needed wings to fly — it was given them. The mystery at its heart has never been solved.
Continues from Book 5 — The DuGall Valley · Leads directly into Series Two: Book 7 — The Brothers →
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