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Synopsis
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is a cautionary tale in which the individual preoccupations of her family almost result in the murder of Hilary, an unlovely, intelligent child who cannot reach out to her parents and explain about the "devil".
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Biographie de l'auteur
Nina Bawden (1925-2012) was one of Britain's best-loved writers for both adults and children. Several of her children's books - Carrie's War, a Phoenix Award winner;The Peppermint Pig, which won the Guardian Fiction Award; and Keeping Henry - have become contemporary classics. She wrote over forty novels, slightly more than half of which are for adults, and she was shortlisted for the 1987 Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit. She received the prestigious S T Dupont Golden Pen Award for a lifetime's contribution to literature in 2004, and in 2010 The Birds on the Trees was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.
Revue de presse
A born story-teller (INDEPENDENT)
Nina Bawden's readers should be numbered like the sands of the sea (GUARDIAN)
Nina Bawden's great talent is to be able to take you along a perfectly ordinary street, rip the façade away and show the strange and passionate events that go on behind closed doors (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
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