Bicycles and Blackberries: Tears and triumphs of a little evacuee
Sheila Newberry
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Description for Bicycles and Blackberries: Tears and triumphs of a little evacuee
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
CAN A GOOD HEART KEEP A MISCHIEVOUS GIRL OUT OF TROUBLE? The East End, 1939. When war comes to London, the bright and irrepressible Georgia Smith is torn from her tight-knit family and packed off as an evacuee. She moves in with Phoebe Bliss, whose cheerful smile masks a dark past that ten year-old Georgia couldn't possibly understand. Georgia soon finds herself involved in the small town's complicated love lives. But some secrets aren't meant for little girls, and she finds herself in danger. Can ... Read more
CAN A GOOD HEART KEEP A MISCHIEVOUS GIRL OUT OF TROUBLE? The East End, 1939. When war comes to London, the bright and irrepressible Georgia Smith is torn from her tight-knit family and packed off as an evacuee. She moves in with Phoebe Bliss, whose cheerful smile masks a dark past that ten year-old Georgia couldn't possibly understand. Georgia soon finds herself involved in the small town's complicated love lives. But some secrets aren't meant for little girls, and she finds herself in danger. Can ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Zaffre Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785761614
SKU
KOC0007807
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Sheila Newberry
Sheila Newberry was born in Suffolk and spent a lot of time there both before and during the war. She wrote her first 'book' before she was ten - all sixty pages of it - in purple ink. Her family has certainly been her inspiration and she has been published most of her adult life. She spent forty years living ... Read more
Reviews for Bicycles and Blackberries: Tears and triumphs of a little evacuee
A lovely read that I won't forget in a hurry
Echoes in an Empty Room
The cover page is beautiful. The characters are complicated but still simple when they are read about. The stroy moves fast. The language is very simple. The book gives a good taste of life during the war. It is almost nostalgic (...) I ... Read more
Echoes in an Empty Room
The cover page is beautiful. The characters are complicated but still simple when they are read about. The stroy moves fast. The language is very simple. The book gives a good taste of life during the war. It is almost nostalgic (...) I ... Read more