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Carrie's War (with signed card)

Carrie's War (with signed card)

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Carrie's War (with signed card)

by BAWDEN, Nina

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  • Hardcover
  • Signed
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Gollancz, 1973. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine, unclipped dustjacket with the attractive Faith Jaques artwork. Signed by the author on a card laid-in, dated January 1988. Slight flecking to the top block. Carnegie Medal runner-up, and a really lovely copy of this classic tale of two children evacuated to a Welsh village during the Second World War.

Synopsis

Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a sister, Lou, who suddenly starts having secrets. Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid's Bottom with warm-hearted Hepzibah Green and the strange Mister Johnny, who can talk to animals but not to human beings. Carrie and Nick visit him there whenever they can for Hepzibah makes life exciting and enticing with her stories and delicious cooking. Gradually they begin to feel more at ease in their war-time home, but then, in trying to heal the rift between Mr Evans and his estranged sister, and save Druid's Bottom, Carrie does a terrible thing which is to haunt her for years to come. Carrie revisits Wales as an adult and tells the story to her own children.

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Bookseller
Shellhouse Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
PSHB7347
Title
Carrie's War (with signed card)
Author
BAWDEN, Nina
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Gollancz, 1973
Keywords
Fiction

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