Nisha’s War by Dan Smith

£7.99

YOUNG READER REVIEW

Nisha is a refugee from Malaya, she has escaped the terror of the Japanese invasion and fled to England with her ‘Amma’. But on the mysterious Barrow Island she is lonely and will do anything for a friend. Can she get over her experience? A heart wrenching book about an important point in time that people don’t know much about. By: Megan (age 12). Rating: 4.5/5.

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Description

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 granddaughter 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 … A thrilling historical ghost story; full of adventure, grief, guilt, forgiveness and belonging A fresh angle on a wartime story: the prejudice Nisha faces as a refugee feels particularly relevant today.