Angel of Grasmere
- Author Tom Palmer, Cover design by Tom Clohosy Cole
- Narrator TBD
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Run Time 5 hours and 32 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Military and war fiction, Children’s / Teenage: True stories told as fiction.
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Price p/Title
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What to expect
Tarn grapples with the loss of her brother at Dunkirk as she faces the threat of Nazi invasion in the Cumbrian countryside in this gripping wartime tale from Tom Palmer.
July 1940 – as Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved brother in the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk, she and her friends scour the hills around their Lake District home, watching for any signs of the long-dreaded Nazi invasion.
But as the war drags on, with little good news from the front, the locals become aware of someone carrying out anonymous acts of kindness, such as saving a flock of sheep from a snowdrift and getting help for an injured farmer who might other wise have died.
With no one claiming credit, they come to think of this unidentified stranger as a kind of guardian angel, but when his identity is finally revealed can Tarn come to terms with the truth…?
Critics Review
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“Historical fiction doesn’t get much better than this” – LoveReading4Kids on After the War
“Tom Palmer is the master of accessible historical fiction …
A heart-wrenching story of strength, courage and sacrifice” – Kate Heap, Scope for Imagination on Resist“The best children’s book I’ve yet read about the Holocaust” – Tim Robertson, CEO Anne Frank Trust on After the War
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