The Skylarks' War - Hilary McKay 电子书 mobi+epub
Product details
Hardcover: 320 pages
Age Range: 9 - 11 years
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books; Main Market edition (20 Sept. 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1509894942
ISBN-13: 978-1509894949
The Skylarks' War Hardcover – 20 Sep 2018
by Hilary McKay (Author)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509894942
Product details
Hardcover: 320 pages
Age Range: 9 - 11 years
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books; Main Market edition (20 Sept. 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1509894942
ISBN-13: 978-1509894949
The Skylarks' War is a beautiful story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the harsh backdrop of World War One, from the award-winning Hilary McKay.
Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandparents and running free with their charismatic cousin, Rupert. But normal life resumes each September – boarding school for Peter and Rupert, and a boring life for Clarry at home with her absent father, as the shadow of a terrible war looms ever closer.
When Rupert goes off to fight at the front, Clarry feels their skylark summers are finally slipping away from them. Can their family survive this fearful war?
Review
Hilary McKay’s novel is about love as much as war: the effect on children of being deprived of it and the beneficial results on adults of its persistence. McKay is incapable of writing an uninteresting character or a dull scene... I loved it. (Mary Hoffman Mary Hoffman)
This book is agony and ecstasy, and never have I read such a human and accessible account of World War I. Vivid, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Hilary McKay’s radiant characters touch my heart like real people, friends and loved ones I know well. Possibly the finest writer of our time. (Elizabeth Wein, New York Times-bestselling author of Code Name Verity and The Pearl Thief)
This is McKay at her finest, all the heart and warmth of the Casson family books - with a touch of the Cazalets. It's both a thrilling family adventure and a truthful, heart-breaking examination of the impact of war... [an] exceptional historical novel. (Fiona Noble Bookseller, Children's Book of the Month)
Hilary McKay is surely the heir to Mary Wesley. The Skylarks' War is just lovely. (Charlotte Eyre, The Bookseller)
The Skylarks' War is bloody brilliant, the kind of classic that rings with beauty and conviction and heart-stopping emotion. Not read a novel this good since Eva Ibbotson died. (Amanda Craig)
Hilary McKay is a genius. This beautiful book is so many things simultaneously: complex and subtle, beautiful and raw, timely and timeless. I never wanted it to end. (Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, Carnegie-shortlisted author of The Smell of Other People's Houses)
One of my favourite books of the year, this is McKay at her absolute finest. (Fiona Noble Bookseller Children's Buyer Guide, Highlights of the Season)
I laughed, I cried and I wanted all the characters to be my best friend (Natasha Farrant)
Winning as ever, with an overall Secret Garden feel (Kirkus Reviews)
What a brilliant book. I laughed, I blubbed. The painful jolt of the Great War to one family carefully told. (Jonathan Douglas, Director of the National Literacy Trust)
Book Description
An evocative and heartbreaking novel of family and friendship in wartime from Hilary McKay, award-winning author of the Casson Family Chronicles.
About the Author
Hilary McKay is an award-winning author, having won the Guardian Fiction Prize for her first novel, The Exiles, and going on to win the Smarties and the Whitbread (now the Costa) Award for The Exiles in Love and Saffy's Angel. Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales was her first book with Macmillan Children's Books and is a critically acclaimed collection of clever retellings. Her 2018 title The Skylarks' War marks the centenary of the end of the First World War and is a classic in the making.
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