Author: Nina Bawden Year: 1965 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary
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ISBNs: 9781853810060 1853810061 |
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It is 1953 and Joanna, Kate and Poll, who are eighteen, twelve and six, are living in a riverside suburb of London with their mother Ellen and their stepfather Boyd, the local doctor. Then the past arrives to upset the present in the person of Aunt Hat, a gossipy old friend whose husband has been imprisoned for assulting her, and who seems to bring news from a different world of chaos and drama. The real danger, however, comes not from Aunt Hat's indiscretions but from the girls themselves.
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