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 and former children's
laureate Michael Morpurgo revisits the "landscape of his memories",
telling of his boyhood fifty years before. The village of Bradwell
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. Industrial
reality intrudes when plans are made to build a nuclear power
station on the marshes, and when a village battle ensues for and
against this environmental hazard, young Michael finds himself
caught up in the sad fate of Mrs Pettigrew and the landscape of his
boyhood.
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