| Record Number |
839643 |
| ISBN |
9780008393649 (paperback) |
| Author |
Gaynor, Hazel author. |
| Title |
The bird in the bamboo cage / Hazel Gaynor. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2020. |
| ©2020 |
| Pagination etc. |
386 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note |
Includes further reading and Reading Group questions. |
| Summary Note |
Inspired by true events. China, 1941. Elspeth Kent has fled an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China. But when Japan declares war on the Allies and occupies the school, security and home comforts are replaced by privation, uncertainty and fear. For ten-year-old Nancy Plummer and her school friends, now separated from their parents indefinitely, Miss Kent's new Girl Guide patrol provides a precious reminder of home in a land where they are now the enemy. When teachers and students are removed from the school, they face even greater uncertainty and danger at a Japanese internment camp, where cruelty and punishment reign. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Fiction |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Fiction |
| Prisoners of war -- China -- Fiction |
| Women -- Fiction |
| Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction |
| War fiction. |
| Historical fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F GAYN |
