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After the War

By: Tom Palmer, Violet Tobacco - illustrator
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
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Publisher's Summary

Master storyteller Tom Palmer returns with a deeply moving and beautifully told novel of friendship and belonging, inspired by the incredible true story of the Windermere Boys.

"The best children’s fiction book I’ve yet read about the Holocaust" – Tim Robertson, CEO Anne Frank Trust

Summer 1945. The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in the English Lake District. Having survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, they've finally reached a place of safety and peace, where they can hopefully begin to recover.

But Yossi is haunted by thoughts of his missing father and disturbed by terrible nightmares. As he waits desperately for news from home, he fears that Mordecai and Leo – the closest thing to family he has left – will move on without him. Will life by the beautiful Lake Windermere be enough to bring hope back into all their lives?

©2020 Tom Palmer (P)2022 Small Audio

Critic Reviews

"Devastatingly moving and massively important, and crucially, fantastically accessible" – Books for Keeps

"[Palmer's] most compelling bit of real-life hidden history yet" – The Letterpress Project

"A touching, concisely told yet never dumbed-down, story of childhood during wartime. If you are new to his books, then prepare to be astounded" – Books for Topics

"Full of heart and hope" – INIS

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