Nina Bawden (1925-2012), CBE, was one of Britain's most distinguished and best-loved novelists, both for adults and children (Peppermint Pig and Carrie's War being among her most famous books for young people). She has published over forty novels and an autobiography, In My Own Time. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit and her novel Family Money was filmed by Channel 4, starring Claire Boom and June Whitfield. In 2004 she received the S. T. Dupont Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Contribution to Literature.
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
*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
Delicately done, full of accurate and unsentimental
understanding
*Sunday Telegraph*
Perhaps the best of Nina Bawden's excellent novels
*Sunday Times*
Always an important book, but even more so now with the refugee and
asylum seeker crisis that brings the book new relevance
*Sunday Times*
What a deep, dark, deceptively simple, brilliant novel it is
*Emma Carroll*
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