Carrie's War

A poignant and realistic picture of what the second world war was like for a child . . . Carrie's War captures the true reality of war for a child, and it doesn't sentimentalise warShirley Hughes, Guardian

Delicately done, full of accurate and unsentimental understandingSunday Telegraph

Perhaps the best of Nina Bawden's excellent novelsSunday Times

Always an important book, but even more so now with the refugee and asylum seeker crisis that brings the book new relevanceMichael Morpurgo, Sunday Times