Casualties [Audio Cassette]

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0745140122
• ISBN-13: 978-0745140124
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Lynne Reid Banks is a best-selling author for children and adults. Her classic children's novel 'The Indian in the Cupboard' has sold nearly six million copies worldwide. She was born in London in 1929 and worked as an actress, writer and TV news reporter. Lynne has written thirty books: her first, 'The L-Shaped Room', was published in 1960. She now lives in Dorset, where she continues to write. Lynne says that writing for children comes much more easily than writing for adults. Tony Ross was born in London in 1938. He has worked as an art director at an advertising agency, a graphic designer, a cartoonist, a teacher, a film maker and as a Senior Lecturer in Art at Manchester Polytechnic.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Secrets of war will not remain hidden, March 31, 2007

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Julie Ludwig "Julie" (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casualties (Hardcover)

This is a powerful book which examines the hidden shame and wounds of war. The novel begins with an argument between one couple and moves back and forth through time and across borders. The characters are initially not particularly attractive or compelling but bearing with them you learn of depth and anguish unimagined by looking at the modish, artistic and intelligent selves they present to the world. The strongest recommendation for this novel came from an acquaintance who called me late at night after finishing the book to thank me for recommending it. She felt this slim novel explained so much anguish that she had sensed but not comprehended in the relationship with her family which had - to all appearances - survived World War II and moved on with their lives.
The power of this novel is in its examination of the tentacles of war which reach through time and generations to hold us in ways that we can ignore but not escape.