- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Collins Audio; New edition edition (9 Oct 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0001006622
- ISBN-13: 978-0001006621
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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“Brilliant… grips you like a Spitfire’s safety harness and comes to a halt a heartbeat before you’d prefer.”
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“Westall captures the real essence of wartime childhood… a sense of excitement – both fearful and fun – of ordinary life lived at the edge of danger.”
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Features four stories, funny and dramatic, set in World War II. They are fictional, but their contents are based on fact, mostly from the author's own experience. The stories are read by James Botham and Susan Jameson.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
responding to the previous reviewer, while this isnt the best of Westall's books,he is so good that anything he has written compares with the best children's authors! my children loved them, and i have given them to other children too. Sad that he is not better known as they also have genuine historical value, while written from a childs perspective.
Format:Paperback
As a fan of Westall I'm surprised I've never come across this before. It's 4 (very) short stories with the Blitz as a theme. They do read like episodes either from his own life or stories told to him, and it's a shame they're so short as two had just got interesting when they finished abruptly and not very satisfactorily. "The Thing upstairs" is about desertion but not seemingly the consequences or retribution of such an act, and "Rosie" is a ghost story which would have made a very good, longer story in keeping with some of his other ghost stories.
8 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm not too sure about this book, the plot is complex and the language is strange. I wouldn't recomend it at all for younger readers. Sorry Robert...
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