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Synopsis
It is the year of the Queen's Coronation and Joanna, Kate and Poll are living in a London suburb with their mother and stepfather Boyd, the local doctor. Accepting unquestioningly his unstinting love, they are incurious about their vanished natural father - but the safety of their lives is tenuous. The past arrives to upset the present in the person of Aunt Hat, a gossipy old friend who brings news from a different world of chaos and drama.
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Nina Bawden is foremost among twentieth-century writers of fiction for children. A reviewer in Publishers Weekly wrote: "I'll come right out and say it. For my money, Miss Bawden can so no wrong. Her stories area a perfect blend of humor and suspense, and that's a blend difficult to achieve." Ms. Bawden was born in London, England, and lived there until she was evacuated with her school during the Blitz in World War II. She later attended Somerville College, Oxford. She and her husband, Austin Kark, live in London, except in the spring and summer, when they go to their home in Nauplion, Greece.
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The three Boyd children are living with their mother and stepfather in a suburb of London, dealing with the issues that provide all children with the stumbling blocks of growing up. Joanna is wounded by love; Kate toys with the dramas of life, while Poll plays the detective. Their stepfather is a loving guide for them all...but why does no one tell them about their real father? Although the plot is simple, the action of the book would be well served by a narrator who is excited by its contents. Julia Sands has excellent diction. She sometimes changes her tone for different characters. But her reading is aimed more at expressing the sentence than remembering the story and pushing it forward to a climax. As she tells it, nothing much happens. J.P. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherAmereon Ltd
- ISBN 10 0884111229
- ISBN 13 9780884111221
- BindingHardcover
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