![]() Evans and his younger sister, Auntie Lou. Their parents find them a home with a shop owner named Mr. ![]() At the beginning of World War II, she and her little brother, Nick, are sent to Wales, where they settle in an impoverished town whose main industry is mining. There, she tells her three children the story of her flight from London. Carrie, having recently lost her husband, visits the Welsh village where she was once a child refugee. Carrie’s War won the 1993 Phoenix Award, one of the highest awards in children’s literature. The story is told in retrospect from the point of view of Carrie, who, three decades after the war, recalls her flight from London. They make their way to a village in Wales, striving to create a life for themselves despite the precarity of their refuge. ![]() Carrie’s War (1973), a children’s novel by English author Nina Bawden, follows two young siblings, Carrie and Nick Willow, who are forced to evacuate from London in the midst of World War II. ![]()
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