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Jan 1, 1925 — Jan 1, 2012· 87 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · FICTION · CHILDREN

Nina Bawden

Also known as: Nina, Bawden, Nina BAWDEN

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Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an English novelist and children's writer. According to the BBC, Bawden was "one of the few modern novelists to write successfully for both adults and children", while P. D. James described her as "among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today". A recipient of the Golden PEN Award, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.

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"A little past two o'clock on that Saturday afternoon in March of 1947, the phone rang in my hotel sitting room."

— from Off the road, 1990

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The Robbers

1979

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Nine-year-old Phillip has always lived with his grandmother, but when his widowed father remarries he finds that he must suddenly adjust to a new way of life with his father and stepmother.

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Off the road

1990

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It is the year 2035, and kids are the only ones who matter. In Tom's world, every family has only one child. "Brother" and "sister" are insults. And the Oldies, like Gandy--Tom's grandfather--are taken away to Memory Theme Parks. On the way to the Theme Park, Gandy escapes into the Wild Wood, the dangerous world outside their walled city. Tom has no choice but to follow. The wilderness is like nowhere he's ever been before, and the more he learns at Gandy's side, the more he wonders: Is the wall meant to keep the Outsiders out, as he's been taught in school--or the Insiders in?

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Carrie's War

2007

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Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a sister, Lou, who suddenly starts having secrets. Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid's Bottom with warm-hearted Hepzibah Green and the strange Mister Johnny, who can talk to animals but not to human beings. Carrie and Nick visit him there whenever they can for Hepzibah makes life exciting and enticing with her stories and delicious cooking. Gradually they begin to feel more at ease in their war-time home, but then, in trying to heal the rift between Mr Evans and his estranged sister, and save Druid's Bottom, Carrie does a terrible thing which is to haunt her for years to come. Carrie revisits Wales as an adult and tells the story to her own children.

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