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At the age of 13, Jane discovers that her seaman father has remarried and that she has a half brother and sister somewhere. She longs to meet them but her stepmother doesn't want her children to know about Jane. The author also wrote "Peppermint Pig", "The Runaway Summer" and "Squib".
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The Outside Child
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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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0140343040
- ISBN 13 9780140343045
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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