‘’If I don’t read a book soon I think I’ll explode.’’
Carrie, please don’t expose me!!!! (Damn!)
My heart is still breaking thinking about the neglect, abuse and abandonment. Triggering at parts and most disturbing I would say, the book is actually perfect.
You will love Tom. He’s the perfect adult character of all time for me! I just wish every adult to be this giving, caring and nurturing towards every child.
You will also get to know one of the worst mothers ever.
Not going to tell the story all over again. I would just recommend you to pick up this book and feel all there’s the feel about a very much neglected/abandoned child, the child healing slowly, the way a community helps in the healing process as and when the child facing PTSD effects.
The writing is really good! Hope everyone gets to read this book.
The adult reading the book will get to learn to be more kinder and understanding towards children.
The child reading this book will get to learn the difference between when an adult misbehaves and when an adult actually cares.
This book!
Zach, I will always remember you. You are one the best souls I have ever come to know.

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Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of World War II. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley, but his newfound happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London...
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Listening Length | 3 hours and 26 minutes |
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Author | Michelle Magorian |
Narrator | Patrick Malahide |
Audible.in Release Date | 29 January 2015 |
Publisher | Penguin Audio |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Abridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B079XR72TT |
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‘’If I don’t read a book soon I think I’ll explode.’’Carrie, please don’t expose me!!!! (Damn!)My heart is still breaking thinking about the neglect, abuse and abandonment. Triggering at parts and most disturbing I would say, the book is actually perfect.You will love Tom. He’s the perfect adult character of all time for me! I just wish every adult to be this giving, caring and nurturing towards every child.You will also get to know one of the worst mothers ever.Not going to tell the story all over again. I would just recommend you to pick up this book and feel all there’s the feel about a very much neglected/abandoned child, the child healing slowly, the way a community helps in the healing process as and when the child facing PTSD effects.The writing is really good! Hope everyone gets to read this book.The adult reading the book will get to learn to be more kinder and understanding towards children.The child reading this book will get to learn the difference between when an adult misbehaves and when an adult actually cares.This book!Zach, I will always remember you. You are one the best souls I have ever come to know.
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‘’If I don’t read a book soon I think I’ll explode.’’
Carrie, please don’t expose me!!!! (Damn!)
My heart is still breaking thinking about the neglect, abuse and abandonment. Triggering at parts and most disturbing I would say, the book is actually perfect.
You will love Tom. He’s the perfect adult character of all time for me! I just wish every adult to be this giving, caring and nurturing towards every child.
You will also get to know one of the worst mothers ever.
Not going to tell the story all over again. I would just recommend you to pick up this book and feel all there’s the feel about a very much neglected/abandoned child, the child healing slowly, the way a community helps in the healing process as and when the child facing PTSD effects.
The writing is really good! Hope everyone gets to read this book.
The adult reading the book will get to learn to be more kinder and understanding towards children.
The child reading this book will get to learn the difference between when an adult misbehaves and when an adult actually cares.
This book!
Zach, I will always remember you. You are one the best souls I have ever come to know.
Carrie, please don’t expose me!!!! (Damn!)
My heart is still breaking thinking about the neglect, abuse and abandonment. Triggering at parts and most disturbing I would say, the book is actually perfect.
You will love Tom. He’s the perfect adult character of all time for me! I just wish every adult to be this giving, caring and nurturing towards every child.
You will also get to know one of the worst mothers ever.
Not going to tell the story all over again. I would just recommend you to pick up this book and feel all there’s the feel about a very much neglected/abandoned child, the child healing slowly, the way a community helps in the healing process as and when the child facing PTSD effects.
The writing is really good! Hope everyone gets to read this book.
The adult reading the book will get to learn to be more kinder and understanding towards children.
The child reading this book will get to learn the difference between when an adult misbehaves and when an adult actually cares.
This book!
Zach, I will always remember you. You are one the best souls I have ever come to know.
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It was a nice book. I could feel the emotions really well.
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It was really good and in a good shape and condition
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Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 1 April 2019
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Wonderful book in setting of WWII. Received in perfect condition
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Really nice quality
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It's a very good story
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Ihave gifted this book to my niece & she loves it.
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Its a very boring story
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M. G. Brown
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's a good read, but is it a children's book?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 September 2020Verified Purchase
I read this with my ten year old son. It's a well written story about the relationship between a boy call Will and an old man he stays with while evacuated during the war called Tom.
Will has a background where he's been abused by his mother. There is a section in the middle where his mother traps him in a cupboard under the stairs with a baby that dies. Even though Tom comes to his rescue, this section upset my son and gave him nightmares. For that reason I'd really only recommend this for older kids in their mid teens.
Will has a background where he's been abused by his mother. There is a section in the middle where his mother traps him in a cupboard under the stairs with a baby that dies. Even though Tom comes to his rescue, this section upset my son and gave him nightmares. For that reason I'd really only recommend this for older kids in their mid teens.
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Janie U
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Many questions will be raised by a interested young reader
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 January 2020Verified Purchase
I recently read a book about childhood reading. Many of the books discussed were very familiar to me but this one had passed me by so it seemed a good excuse to read it now.
I expected a happy story set in wartime and it was so much more than that. The descriptions are wonderful and I loved the subtlety of the relationships, particularly that of Tom and Willie.
At the start the subject matter is so dark so I wasn't prepared when the plot darkened even further with details of Willie's background and his treatment in London showing the worst of humanity. More happily his life in the country soothes and attempts to cure him as he is wrapped in love and friendship. There is a simplicity to the "bad" town and the "good" country which was rather basic for an adult audience but works perfectly for a younger reader.
At times the narrative takes a turn towards Enid Blyton (e.g. their trip to the seaside) but, being written in the 1980s not the 1930s, there is always something sad to balance the book.
I loved that this plot never patronises its younger audience with Will's life raising many questions to an interested reader.
I expected a happy story set in wartime and it was so much more than that. The descriptions are wonderful and I loved the subtlety of the relationships, particularly that of Tom and Willie.
At the start the subject matter is so dark so I wasn't prepared when the plot darkened even further with details of Willie's background and his treatment in London showing the worst of humanity. More happily his life in the country soothes and attempts to cure him as he is wrapped in love and friendship. There is a simplicity to the "bad" town and the "good" country which was rather basic for an adult audience but works perfectly for a younger reader.
At times the narrative takes a turn towards Enid Blyton (e.g. their trip to the seaside) but, being written in the 1980s not the 1930s, there is always something sad to balance the book.
I loved that this plot never patronises its younger audience with Will's life raising many questions to an interested reader.
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Garreth W
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 28 June 2020Verified Purchase
Overal a nice story.... I say nice because it was very happily ever after in some parts and quite frankly a little unconvincing. Little Willie was loved by everyone in the village and life was almost boring for the reader occasionally, it almost felt as if the author felt sorry for poor ickle Will and wanted him to have a perfect life. I felt that his friend Carrie had little personality until the end of the book but her sister..... She was only there because Carrie was really.
I was glad that Will got to have a talent in drawing but the author kept giving him more and more talents throught the book which made him slowly seem more unreal. The story was shocking in places - the whole violence and abuse from Willies mother didnt fit the otherwise happy story at all, it seemed very disturbing.
It was a good story and well written, I was engrossed the whole way through due to the descriptive launguage but I questioned the story line as I read it.
It was overall an enjoyable read as long as you never question the plot.
I was glad that Will got to have a talent in drawing but the author kept giving him more and more talents throught the book which made him slowly seem more unreal. The story was shocking in places - the whole violence and abuse from Willies mother didnt fit the otherwise happy story at all, it seemed very disturbing.
It was a good story and well written, I was engrossed the whole way through due to the descriptive launguage but I questioned the story line as I read it.
It was overall an enjoyable read as long as you never question the plot.
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madsam
5.0 out of 5 stars
He really enjoyed the story and asked quite a lot of questions ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 12 April 2017Verified Purchase
Bought this for my 10 year old son as a Christmas present(2016). He started reading it just before Easter (2017) as he was studying WW2 in school. He really enjoyed the story and asked quite a lot of questions related to that time and story. He did say that it was one of his favourite stories and would read it again. Def a firm favourite
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John Hopper
5.0 out of 5 stars
great book for children and others like me!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 June 2019Verified Purchase
This award-winning children's novel published in 1981 has been read and enjoyed by generations of children since. It tells the heart-warming story of a small boy, William Beech, who is evacuated to the country village of Little Weirwold just before the outbreak of the Second World War. He is billetted with a withdrawn elderly widower Tom Oakley. Despite their differences, Tom comes to care for his young charge, who, it emerges, has been beaten and abused by his fanatically religious widowed mother. At one point, the mother uses a ruse to lure the boy back to London, but all comes good in the end for young Will and Tom. The book deals with serious themes, child abuse and war, yet carries a lightness of touch with many happy scenes in the village and surrounding countryside. If I had one criticism, the book is perhaps slightly too long for its content, but that, I acknowledge, is being rather picky and I am reading it as an adult, not its main target audience. A great read.
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