Description
Part of a stunning new design partnership between Puffin and the Imperial War Museum, this is an unforgettable novel from a Carnegie Medal-winning author, featuring a special foreword from Elizabeth Wein, author of Code Name Verity.
Scotland, 1915. A group of teenagers from very different backgrounds meet for an idyllic picnic, but the war across the Channel is proving increasingly impossible to ignore, and all too soon they will be engulfed by what is to become known as The Great War.
Determined to forge their own paths during a time of enormous upheaval, the five friends encounter not only the horrors of the trenches, but also the thrum of first love, and the political struggles of pacifism and women's rights. Their lives will be changed forever - and nothing will ever be the same again.
Part of a stunning new design partnership between Puffin and the Imperial War Museum, this is an unforgettable novel from a Carnegie-winning author
About the Author
Theresa Breslin (Author)
THERESA BRESLIN is the Carnegie Medal-winning author of over thirty books for children & young adults, whose work has appeared on stage, radio and TV. Her books are hugely popular with young people, librarians and teachers. Remembrance, her YA novel about young people in WW1, was a bestseller, and Whispers in the Graveyard won the Carnegie Medal. The Dream Master was shortlisted for the Children's Book Award, and Divided City was shortlisted for ten book awards, winning two outright.
Reviews
A novel that will stay with me for a long time * Bookseller *
An immensely readable, passionately written epic * Guardian *
[B]rilliantly weaves themes of emancipation, class, love, propaganda and the machinations of war * Financial Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9780241352618
Author Theresa Breslin
Format Hardback
Page Count 352
Imprint Puffin
Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Weight(grams) 359g
Dimensions(mm) 184mm * 138mm * 33mm