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Tamar: Love, Espionage and Betrayal
Mal Peet
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Description for Tamar: Love, Espionage and Betrayal
Paperback. When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century earlier. Unravelling it will transform the younger Tamar's life.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 5AQ; YFC. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 135 x 34. Weight in Grams: 366.
Winner of the Carnegie Medal, Tamar is Mal Peet's astonishing novel about love, lies and secrets in a time of war.
Mal Peet's Carnegie Medal-winning novel. When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century earlier. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War. Unravelling it will transform the younger Tamar's life...
Product Details
Publisher
Walker Books Ltd
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781406339130
SKU
V9781406339130
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Mal Peet
Mal Peet's first novel, Keeper, won the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize; Tamar won the Carnegie Medal; and Exposure was the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. A writer and illustrator, Mal produced many books for children throughout his lifetime, most of them in collaboration with his wife, Elspeth Graham.
Reviews for Tamar: Love, Espionage and Betrayal
This sombre and distinguished book is as fine a piece of storytelling as you are likely to read this year.
The Guardian
Mal Peet, who won the Branford Boase Award in 2004 for Keeper, has written a complex and rewarding novel which is two stories in one. Peet moves effortlessly and skilfully between the 1940s and the present ... Read more
The Guardian
Mal Peet, who won the Branford Boase Award in 2004 for Keeper, has written a complex and rewarding novel which is two stories in one. Peet moves effortlessly and skilfully between the 1940s and the present ... Read more