it had been june , the bright hot summer of 1937 , and with the curtains thrown back the bedroom had been full of sunlight , sunlight and her and will 's children , their grandchildren , their nieces and nephews-cecy 's blue-eyed boys , tall and handsome , and gideon and sophie 's two girls-and those who were as close as family : charlotte , white-haired and upright , and the fairchild sons and daughters with their curling red hair like henry 's had once been .