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Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of the UK's best-loved authors for children and young people. He was the third UK Children's Laureate and he has won the Children's Book Award, the Nestle Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. There have been many stage and screen adaptations of his books, including a major film and award-winning stage play based on War Horse. Michael also set up the charity Farms for City Children with his wife Clare.
‘Our national treasure . . . Hugely moving’ New Statesman ‘Please invite this wonderful story in, you won’t regret it. History is rarely more movingly alive’ Morris Gleitzman ‘A belter of a book that rivals War Horse in its cinematic storytelling’ Daily Telegraph A lovely, lovely story . . . Full of lyrical descriptions of landscape and island life, which make it a real pleasure to read . . . Absorbing’ The Bookbag Morpurgo returns to the First World War of his much-lauded War Horse in a beautifully crafted, multivoiced novel about the sinking of the Lusitania, the strength of family bonds, the vicissitudes of memory, and the fear and bigotry of neighbours . . . All the elements of the tale weave together both beautifully and dramatically. A poignant and life-affirming story from a master’ Kirkus Reviews ‘An emotional tale of wreck and recovery’ Publishers Weekly
