BAWDEN, Nina - Tortoise by Candlelight - (1st Edition Hardcover)

BAWDEN, Nina - Tortoise by Candlelight - (1st Edition Hardcover)

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(NO MORE THAT 4 BOOKS PER ORDER ALLOWED SO THAT PARCEL WEIGHS 2 kg. OR LESS) - Did belong to a library before and has their usual nasty goodies inside - But very scarce and very readable - 239 pg' - Published in 1963.   >>>   With the ferocity of a mother tiger defending her cubs, fourteen-year-old Emmie Bean watches over her household: her amiable drunken father, her gaunt, evangelical old grandmother, her beautiful, wayward sister Alice and most precious of all, eight-year-old Oliver, who has the countenance of an angel and the ethical sense of a cobra. But with the arrival of new neighbours, the outside world intrudes into the isolated privacy of family life and Emmie's kingdom is no longer secure. Combining the guile of a young child with the desperation of adolescence, Emmie fights to stave off the changes- and the revelations- that growing up necessarily brings. Powerful, heart-rending, but never sentimental, Tortoise by Candlelight is a captivating excursion into the landscape of youth.  >>>   Nina Bawden was a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine. -  When World War II broke out she spent the school holidays at a farm in Shropshire along with her mother and her brothers, but lived in Aberdare, Wales, during term time. -  Bawden attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. -  Her novels include Carrie's War, Peppermint Pig, and The Witch's Daughter. -  A number of her works have been dramatised by BBC Children's television, and many have been translated into various languages. In 2002 she was badly injured in the Potters Bar rail crash, and her husband Austen Kark was killed. -  Bawden passed away at her home in London on 22 August 2012.    
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