by Meg Rosoff (Author)
It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History. But let's face it, that would be crap. Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met. They are Isaac, Edmond, Osbert and Piper. And two dogs and a goat. She's never met anyone quite like them before - and, as a dreamy English summer progresses, Daisy finds herself caught in a timeless bubble. It seems like the perfect summer. But their lives are about to explode. Falling in love is just the start of it. War breaks out - a war none of them understands, or really cares about, until it lands on their doorstep. The family is separated. The perfect summer is blown apart. Daisy's life is changed forever - and the world is too.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 186
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 05 Aug 2004
ISBN 10: 0141380756
ISBN 13: 9780141380759
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
Prizes: Winner of Branford Boase Award 2005 and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2004. Shortlisted for Booktrust Teenage Prize 2005 and Orange Award for New Writers 2005 and British Book Awards: Children's Book of the Year 2005 and Whitbread Book Awards: Children's Book Category 2004.