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author: Goudge, Elizabeth

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Language: English
Genre: Original Fiction
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Publishing year: 1954
Length: 12:29 Hours

Book summary:

It is the summer of 1940 and England is fighting for her life. In a rural corner of England the vagaries of war bring together a group of people wrestling the enemy within; fear, despair, loss of faith. Shy Miss Brown becomes house-keeper at the Castle. She takes to her heart its three occupant, an historian and his two nephews. To this retreat comes Moppet and Poppet, two children evacuated from the ruins of London.


 
 
 
 
 

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