The Children of Charlecote

by Philippa Pearce (Author), Brian Fairfax-Lucy (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  Set before the first First World War, this book tells the story of Tom, Laura, Hugh, and Margaret, whose home is the great house, Charlecote, set in the Warwickshire countryside. Despite their privileged background, the children are not always happy - their parents are stern and Tom is sent away to boarding school. But when the holidays come, everything changes and the four of them have many adventures together in the vast grounds of the house. *Originally published in 1968, this is a welcome reissue of a book which 'movingly shows the close bond between the upper class children and servants in a great house, when both feared and suffered the hand of authority.' (20th Century Children's Writers)

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $8.23

  This story, rewritten 20 years after its original publication, concerns a divided family set in the years leading up to World War I and is based on the childhood of Sir Brian Fairfax-Lucy at Charlecote, Warwickshire. It traces the growth of four children who could easily be thought to lead a privileged life. But their father practised rigid economies and the children had less to eat than the servants and wore the shabbiest clothes. As the years passed confrontation became inevitable.