A tender, lyrical tale from the author's childhood in an idyllic
English village, with environmental and conservational themes. In
this involving tale, master storyteller Michael Morpurgo revisits
the "landscape of his memories", telling of his boyhood in the
idyllic village of Bradwell fifty years before. The village is a
stone's throw from the sea and is peopled by quirky characters such
as the three Stebbing sisters, the white moustachioed Colonel
Burton and Bennie the village thug. But the heroine of this story
is the serene Mrs Pettigrew, who lives in a railway carriage down
in the marshes with her dogs, donkey, bees and hens. But industrial
reality intrudes when plans are made to build a nuclear power
station on the site of the marshes, endangering Mrs Pettigrew's
home and the gulls, owls, kestrels and thousands of insects and
plants which also belong there. A village battle ensues for and
against the environmental hazard of the power station, and the
young Michael finds himself caught up in the sad fate of Mrs
Pettigrew and the landscape of his boyhood.
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