Grandmother's Footsteps (Moving Times trilogy: 2) (Signature)

Grandmother's Footsteps (Moving Times trilogy: 2) (Signature)

by RachelAnderson (Author)

Synopsis

MOVING TIMES traces the lives and adventures of three generations through childhood and adolescence - with a few births, domestic disasters and deaths in between.

GRANDMOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS begins on the day the Second World War ends, seen through the eyes of the bewildered young Ruth. Mesmerised and terrified by the break-up of the wartime world she is so used to, scared by her mother's disappearance to London in search of their absent father, she clings to the familiar world of her grandmother. Stick by me, Granny tells her, and you'll be all right. But already Ruth's exuberant mother has other plans for the family - a move to London and a succession of wild schemes that bring constant change and upheaval, opening and closing new horizons and leaving young Ruth feeling always - as the years go by - adrift.

Except, that is, in the safe, sure haven of her grandmother's life.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 18 Nov 1999

ISBN 10: 0340732741
ISBN 13: 9780340732748
Book Overview: The author won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award for Paper Faces .

Media Reviews
Full of gentle humour...written with Rachel Anderson's tenderness which never dips into sentimentality. * School Librarian *
even more enjoyable than Bloom of Youth * School Librarian, v.48, no.2, Summer 2000 *
will intrigue young writers experimenting with different ways of arranging narrative * TES, 30th June 2000 *
an evocative picture of a girl growing up in difficult family circumstances * Carousel issue 15, Summer 2000 *

THE WAR ORPHAN
'a rare and truthful book'

* Books for your children *

BLACKTHORN, WHITETHORN
'... there's a personal, original vision here ... involving and impressive'

* Philip Pullman, The Guardian *
Author Bio

Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award for PAPER FACES, Rachel Anderson has written more than 30 books for children of all ages, many published by OUP. She excels at tackling life's difficult and sensitive themes with a skilful blend of humour and sensitivity.
She is married, has four grown up children and a grandson, and has achieved her life-long ambition - to live in a cottage in the woods in Northrepps, Norfolk