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Michelle Magorian

UK · Home front — children's fiction

About

British author. Goodnight Mister Tom, about an evacuee and the widower who takes him in, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

Books in Database (1)

Goodnight Mister Tom cover
Goodnight Mister Tom 1981 · 318 pages

A battered London evacuee is billeted on a gruff widower, and two broken people mend each other as the bombs begin.

Historical Fiction

Events Covered

1940 Battle of Britain & The Blitz