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Loading... When The War Came Homeby Lesley Parr
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Wonderful historical mystery set after World War I in Wales. I loved the setting and characters, strong girls and boys both. ( )
Natty is sick of her mother getting fired for talking back to bosses – and now they've landed up in Ynysfach with Mam's annoying relatives. When Natty encounters injustice in her new school, though, she finds she is more like Mam than she knew. And when she meets a young soldier who has lost his memory, she may have just the right ideas to help him rediscover his past. For age 9 and up, an assured, thoughtful historical novel with a richly evoked postwar Welsh setting.
12-year-old Natalie is furious when her mum, Ffion, loses her factory job for sticking up for workers' rights. Now they have to leave their home and go to stay at her uncle's farm. The last thing Natty wants is to buddy up with her know-it-all cousin, Nerys. Natty gets on better with her older cousin Huw, despite the fact that he's returned from the front line of WWI and his mood can be unpredictable. Instead, Natty finds herself making friends with two convalescing soldiers with very different conditions. Maybe spending time with them will give her a way to help Huw? One of the soldiers, Johnny, is suffering with amnesia and Natty is determined to help him discover his identity. Before she knows it, Natty is drawn into a mystery where the answers to who Johnny truly is lay closer to home than she imagined. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.92Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 2000-LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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