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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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Published In 2005 : New Edition : Puffin Books : Very Faint Face Rubbing : Otherwise , As New Throughout : Overall , A Very Nice Book :
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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)

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)

Delicately done, full of accurate and unsentimental understanding (Sunday Telegraph)

Perhaps the best of Nina Bawden's excellent novels (Sunday Times)

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  • PublisherPuffin Classics
  • Publication date1993
  • ISBN 10 0140364560
  • ISBN 13 9780140364569
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages208
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. Middlesex. Penguin Books Ltd (Puffin). 2005. Soft Covers. Illustrated wraps. Condition. As New. 1973 English children's novel by Nina Bawden set during the Second World War. It follows two young London evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick, into a Welsh village. Seller Inventory # DEC29.21027

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