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"Our cover picture Holiday traffic on its way to the coast, August 1960' may evoke nostalgia, interest, curiosity or speculation. Whatever the response, if it encourages close looking that is what Penny Marshall had in mind when she selected for Cars (0 356 l 1393 0) in her The Camera as witness series for Macdonald."
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Puffin Plus, I'd say; buy lots, now you can. It's short, very accessible and takes you in dozens of directions - family, class, gender, place time... Narrator revisits childhood house. A few pages establish the present and then we're early WW2. Childhood, people, landscape, the war years are beautifully made real. The hard centre is father, seldom present, always life-threatening (not physically) to daughter and son, which is why they ran away. Recalling this is the book's flow and 'reason' -- to explain to the narrator's husband. So: layers of interest and of writing. Three for the library, 30 for the 4th year. Take them on from Carrie's War, through to Jane Gardam, with poetry on the way.
