Carrie's War

Author(s): Nina Bawden

Kids' Classics (fairy tales, poetry etc)

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

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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 *

Nina Bawden (1925-2012) was one of Britain's best-loved writers for both adults and children. Several of her children's books - Carrie's War, a Phoenix Award winner;The Peppermint Pig, which won the Guardian Fiction Award; and Keeping Henry - have become contemporary classics. She wrote over forty novels, slightly more than half of which are for adults, and she was shortlisted for the 1987 Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit. She received the prestigious S T Dupont Golden Pen Award for a lifetime's contribution to literature in 2004, and in 2010 The Birds on the Trees was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.

General Fields

  • : 9780349009162
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Virago Press Ltd
  • : 0.182
  • : November 2017
  • : 198mm X 126mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Nina Bawden
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : Alan Marks
  • : English
  • : 823.9/14
  • : 224