A Long Way Home [Import] [Hardcover]

Victor Pemberton (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (May 3, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755334558
• ISBN-13: 978-0755334551
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,704,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Long Way Home, August 26, 2008

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Linda Cowan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Long Way Home (Paperback)

It's 1939. Children, and Mother's with young children are being evacuated to the safety of the countryside. Sixteen year old Hannah, and her nine year old sister Louie, or Lou as she is referred to, are sent to live with Sidney, and his wife Margaret Bullock. The Bullocks are a strange couple. They insist the girls call them Mother, and Father, even though they have a Mother and Father. Their real Mother Bab's Adams, is left behind at home to endure the bombings and chaos of the city; while their Father Len,is away serving in the army. Hannah despises the Bullocks, especially when they force her to work hours on end helping them out with the pub they own and operate. While working in the pub Hannah finds out that the Bullocks had another girl working for them around her own age, but she died under mysterious circumstances. Hannah runs away from the Bullocks and walks some twenty miles home. But when Hannah arrives home, she is shocked to see what her Mom has been up to while she and Lou have been away. Hannah finds out even more secrets about her parents. This book is a real page turner, and is also very well researched. It's a wonderful read for anyone interested in the Second World War. Well done Victor! Look on the cover of this book for Just for You, this has special extras inside for you to read. Victor tells of his own experience of being evacuated as a child during the war.