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After the Bombing
Clare Morrall
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Description for After the Bombing
Paperback. By the author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour, an ambitious and moving exploration of the lasting impact of the Second World War. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
Alma Braithwaite was a teenager in Exeter when her boarding school was bombed in 1942. Twenty-one years later, she remains alone in the house where she grew up, teaching music at her old school, unable to move on from the tragic events of the war. It takes the arrival of an innovative new headmistress and a new pupil - the daughter of a man Alma hasn't seen since 1942 - to bring back the painful yet exhilarating summer that followed the air-raids and jolt her out of the past.
Alma Braithwaite was a teenager in Exeter when her boarding school was bombed in 1942. Twenty-one years later, she remains alone in the house where she grew up, teaching music at her old school, unable to move on from the tragic events of the war. It takes the arrival of an innovative new headmistress and a new pupil - the daughter of a man Alma hasn't seen since 1942 - to bring back the painful yet exhilarating summer that followed the air-raids and jolt her out of the past.
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
269g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444736465
SKU
V9781444736465
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99-10
About Clare Morrall
Clare Morrall's first novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, was published in 2003 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year. She has since published the novels Natural Flights of the Human Mind, The Language of Others, The Man Who Disappeared, which was a TV Book Club Summer Read in 2010, The Roundabout Man and After the Bombing. Born ... Read more
Reviews for After the Bombing
Oscillating between World War II and the early Sixties, Morrall sets about evoking the war's enduring impact on those who were left behind on the home front, too young to take part yet irrevocably shaped by it nonetheless . . . an engaging story throughout.
Hephzibah Anderson
Daily Mail
A potent evocation of the war on the ... Read more
Hephzibah Anderson
Daily Mail
A potent evocation of the war on the ... Read more