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Nisha's War

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Nisha's War
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dan Smith
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 201,Width 138
Category/GenreIntergenerational relationships
ISBN/Barcode 9781912626755
ClassificationsDewey:823.92
Audience
Children / Juvenile

Publishing Details

Publisher Chicken House Ltd
Imprint Chicken House Ltd
Publication Date 3 February 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Malaya, 1942. Nisha's home is destroyed by war and she and her mother, Amma, flee to her father's ancestral house in England, perched on a cliff top on the cold northern coast. When Amma falls gravely ill, Nisha is left to face her formidable grandmother alone. Grandmother's rules are countless, and her Anglo-Indian grand-daughter is even forbidden from climbing the old weeping tree. But when a ghost child beckons Nisha to sit under its boughs, and promises her Amma's life in return for three truths, its pull proves irresistible ...