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Imprint: Ebury Digital
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Published: 07/05/2015
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ISBN: 9781473502925
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Length: 400 Pages
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RRP: £12.98
From the author of bestselling The Tent, The Bucket and Me, now a BBC1 comedy series, THE KENNEDYS.
As the youngest in a family of six, all eleven-year-old Anthony wants is a pair of shoes to call his own. Instead he’s condemned to wear a pair of hand-me-down wellies that may or may not be haunted.
When war comes to his small, impoverished mining village, life starts to get more exciting: there are American soldiers, his sister has joined the WAAF – Mrs Reece even has a banana! But it is only when a foreign plane crashes into the Welsh hillside that Anthony and his gang discover what war is really about…
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Imprint: Ebury Digital
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Published: 07/05/2015
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ISBN: 9781473502925
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Length: 400 Pages
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RRP: £12.98
Reviews
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"Moving, memorable and magnificent"
Clare Balding
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"Heart-warming, evocative, I couldn't put this down. Utterly brilliant."
Katie Fforde
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"The most wonderful book about poverty in the mines, family and this little boy who had to wear Wellingtons"
Mary Berry
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"moving debut"
Marie Claire
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"a warm and funny novel"
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