Carrie's War

Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden is an unforgettable Second World War story. ‘I did a dreadful thing …or I feel that I did, and nothing can change it…’ It is the Second World War and Carrie and Nick are evacuated from London to a small town in Wales, where they are placed with strict Mr Evans and his timid mouse of a sister. Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid’s Bottom with Hepzibah Green who tells wonderful stories, and the strange Mister Johnny, who speaks a language all of his own. Carrie and Nick are happy to visit Albert there, until one day when Carrie does a terrible thing – the worst thing she ever did in her life…Based on her own childhood, Nina Bawden’s enchanting story Carrie’s War has delighted readers for almost 40 years. She often used her own childhood experiences in her books – Carrie’s War is set in the mining valley in Wales where she lived as an evacuee in wartime.