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Blue Skies and Gunfire (Definitions) (Paperback)

by K.M. Peyton (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Definitions (3 Jan 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1862301573
  • ISBN-13: 978-1862301573
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 53,239 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When Josie is evacuated to her aunt and uncle's farm in Essex, she meets and falls in love with seventeen year old Jumbo, a happy-go-lucky optimistic young man who doesn't let his disability interrupt a life full of fun. Their relationship takes off, despite the difficulties of the war, which interrupts their idyll from time to time with stories of tragedy and death. But when Josie meets Chris, Jumbo's heroic fighter pilot brother, she experiences feelings that are out of control and dangerous; is this what real love feels like? She is torn between the two young men - one who is steady and loving, the other wayward and challenging. Yet it may not be her choice to make, as the German attack on England becomes more and more dangerous...Set against the backdrop of the second world war, where people diced with life and death every day, this is a wonderfully moving story of love, passion and tragedy.


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She was falling in love. Not happily and compliantly, but in a seriously uncontrolled, dangerous and totally hopeless way. Like a Hurricane crashing.

Josie is in her final term of school when news comes of the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk. Until then the war has seemed so very distant, not something that can directly affect her life. But now the papers are full of talk of invasion and her mother wants her to leave London. For her safety, she says, though Josie suspects it’s to stop her dating a soldier.

She thinks she’ll hate the countryside, and the small world of her aunt and uncle. Then she meets the Patterson brothers, Jumbo and Chris. One warm-hearted but crippled by a motorcycle accident, the other a dashing fighter pilot in the RAF. Josie is drawn helplessly into a tangled web of romance. And as the battle for Britain begins, the fights in the blue Essex skies echo the conflict in her love-torn heart.

Blue Skies and Gunfire is a sensational wartime romance from the author of the award-winning Flambards series. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Peyton at her best, 26 May 2009
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This is vintage Peyton, wonderfully written with characters who come out of the page to you. An unputdownable read which I devoured and would have immediately read again if my Mother hadn't seen it and grabbed it!

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