Deeply unhappy at the recent divorce of her parents, Mary is sent
away to live by the sea with her distant grandfather and the
detestable Aunt Alice. Feeling abandoned, without even the company
of her beloved pet cat Noakes, the summer looks set to become one
long stretch of unendurable loneliness. But suddenly she is
dragged, half unwittingly, into a situation that will force her to
come to the aid of others more vulnerable than herself. So begins
her runaway summer, as she sets about helping Simon, the son of a
local policeman, and a young illegal immigrant boy arrived from
Kenya, frightened and all alone. The Runaway Summer was first
published in 1969 to typically universal acclaim. It is, in the
words of the Times Educational Supplement, an 'unputdownable gem of
a book. The tale is beautifully constructed in diamond-hard
language.'
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