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Child From Home : Memories of a North Country Evacuee - John Wright

Child From Home

Memories of a North Country Evacuee

By: John Wright

Paperback | 1 September 2009

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In 1939, John Wright, a four-year-old boy from a deprived
but loving Middlesbrough home, was uprooted from his
family and evacuated to a large house in North Yorkshire,
requisitioned as a nursery school. His story is not
unlike any other during the upheaval of wartime, but in
this remarkably lucid and detailed set of recollections,
a seventy-three-year-old man tells his story of love,
loss and life with the delight and fear of a wartime
child. His poignant memories of cruelty and hurt are set
against a beautiful voyage of discovery as a young boy
explores the Yorkshire countryside and comes of age in a
unique environment, only to be struck by an unbearable
tragedy. A bittersweet tale of innocence and stark
realities, "Child from Home" explores why wartime means
so much to our collective memory - and reveals the
devastating effect we have on children as we try to
protect them from conflict.

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