Carrie's War

Author: Nina Bawden

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  • : $19.99 NZD
  • : 9780349009162
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Virago Press Ltd
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  • : 0.182
  • : 01 November 2017
  • : 198mm X 126mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 September 2017
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Barcode 9780349009162
9780349009162

Description

Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a Welsh mountain village in 1939 and become closely involved with several unforgettable characters.   Age 12+

Reviews

Perhaps the best of Nina Bawden's excellent novels * Sunday Times * Delicately done, full of accurate and unsentimental understanding * Sunday Telegraph * A very touching, utterly convincing book about three wartime evacuees billeted to Wales. It's very much a children's story, with a mystery to be solved, but Nina Bawden is very subtle with her characterisation - even hateful Mr Evans with his cruel bullying is seen as sadly pathetic too. Carrie and her little brother Nick are a delight, but my favourite character is their friend Albert Sandwich. He might sport steel spectacles and have a few spots on his chin, but he's one of the most charming boys in all children's fiction * Jacqueline Wilson * A poignant and realistic picture of what the second world war was like for a child . . . Carrie's War captures the true reality of war for a child, and it doesn't sentimentalise war -- Shirley Hughes * Guardian *