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Carrie's War Author: Nina Bawden

ISBN: 9780141354903 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 240 Published: 22 October 2014 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.3 x 12.2 x 1.6 Description: 'I did a dreadful thing . . . or I feel that I did, and nothing can change it . . . '

It's wartime, and Carrie and her little brother, Nick, have been evacuated to Wales to live with grumpy old Mr Evans and his timid mouse of a sister. Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid's Bottom with the strange Mister Johnny and Hepzibah Green, who tells wonderful stories. Gradually they begin to settle into their new surroundings, but then Carrie does the worst thing she ever did in her life.

About the Author

Nina Bawden was one of the UK's best writers for both adults and children. She often used her own childhood experiences in her books - Carrie's War is set in the mining valley in Wales where she lived as an evacuee in wartime. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at Somerville College, Oxford and finished her first novel the year after she took her degree. She won the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction for The Peppermint Pig. Nina died in 2012, aged 87.

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