The Children of Charlecote (Acorn Modern Classics)

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

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $8.27

• 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.