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Carrie's War

Nina Bawden author Emma Reeves editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:1st Sep '07

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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Adapted from a novel by much-loved childrens' writer

Carrie Willow and her brother Nick are evacuees transported to the safety of the countryside in the 1940s. There they stay with Mr Evans; Auntie Lou, and Albert Sandwich and Mr Johnny, who speaks his own language, and Hepzibah, the witch at Druid's Grove who makes perfect mince pies. And then there's the ancient skull with its terrifying curse.Carrie Willow and her brother Nick are evacuees transported to the safety of the countryside in the 1940s. There they stay with mean Mr Evans; but there's also kind Auntie Lou, and brilliant young Albert Sandwich and Mr Johnny, who speaks his own language, and Hepzibah, the witch at Druid's Grove who makes perfect mince pies. And then there's the ancient skull with its terrifying curse...

I doubt that anything will beat this traditional page-to-stage adaptation for ceaselessly involving telling of a cracking story." Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard

ISBN: 9781840027204

Dimensions: 210mm x 130mm x 8mm

Weight: 164g

148 pages