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That Burning Summer
Lydia Syson
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Description for That Burning Summer
Paperback. Sixteen-year-old Peggy has been putting on a brave face since the fall of France, but now the enemy is overhead, and the rules are changing all the time. Staying on the right side of the law proves harder than she expects when a plane crash-lands in the Marsh: it's Peggy who finds its pathetic, broken pilot; and a young Polish man, Henryk. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 5AQ; YFM; YFT. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
Full of passion, this wartime coming of age story is about a girl, a boy and a crash-landing Romney Marsh, July 1940. When invasion threatens, you have to grow up quickly. Sixteen-year-old Peggy has been putting on a brave face since the fall of France, but now the enemy is overhead, and the rules are changing all the time. Staying on the right side of the law proves harder than she expects when a plane crash-lands in the Marsh: it's Peggy who finds its pathetic, broken pilot; a young Polish man, Henryk, who stays hidden in ... Read more
Full of passion, this wartime coming of age story is about a girl, a boy and a crash-landing Romney Marsh, July 1940. When invasion threatens, you have to grow up quickly. Sixteen-year-old Peggy has been putting on a brave face since the fall of France, but now the enemy is overhead, and the rules are changing all the time. Staying on the right side of the law proves harder than she expects when a plane crash-lands in the Marsh: it's Peggy who finds its pathetic, broken pilot; a young Polish man, Henryk, who stays hidden in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hot Key Books
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471400537
SKU
V9781471400537
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99-1
About Lydia Syson
Lydia Syson is a fifth-generation North Londoner who now lives south of the river. She is working through her ambitions in a disorderly fashion. The publication of her first novel, A WORLD BETWEEN US, has taken a good few decades. During this time she went from being a BBC World Service radio listener in Botswana to a producer in London, ... Read more
Reviews for That Burning Summer
Syson's...great strength is characterisation...A touching evocation of a desperate wartime romance, which evokes a vanished era of hardship and fortitude.
Suzi Feay
Financial Times
Consistent excellence ... This is only the second novel from an author very much to look out for.
Children's Books of the Year 2013
The Independent
Beautifully evoking the atmosphere ... Read more
Suzi Feay
Financial Times
Consistent excellence ... This is only the second novel from an author very much to look out for.
Children's Books of the Year 2013
The Independent
Beautifully evoking the atmosphere ... Read more