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Nina Bawden

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: January 18 1925

Died: 2121 08 20122012

Nina Bawden was a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine.

When World War II broke out she spent the school holidays at a farm in Shropshire along with her mother and her brothers, but lived in Aberdare, Wales, during term time.
Bawden attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Her novels include Carrie's War, Peppermint Pig, and The Witch's Daughter.

A number of her works have been dramatised by BBC Children's television, and many have been translated into various languages. In 2002 she was badly injured in the Potters Bar rail crash, and her husband Austen Kark was killed.

Bawden passed away at her home in London on 22 August 2012.

Nina Bawden

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: January 18 1925

Died: 2121 08 20122012

Nina Bawden was a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine.

When World War II broke out she spent the school holidays at a farm in Shropshire along with her mother and her brothers, but lived in Aberdare, Wales, during term time.
Bawden attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Her novels include Carrie's War, Peppermint Pig, and The Witch's Daughter.

A number of her works have been dramatised by BBC Children's television, and many have been translated into various languages. In 2002 she was badly injured in the Potters Bar rail crash, and her husband Austen Kark was killed.

Bawden passed away at her home in London on 22 August 2012.

Books from Nina Bawden

The House of Mirth

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Carrie's War

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Peppermint Pig

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Castle Dor

3.2/5 ( ratings)

The Birds on the Trees

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Secret Passage

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Ice House

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Outside Child

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Afternoon of a Good Woman

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Family Money

3.5/5 ( ratings)

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3.4/5 ( ratings)

A Woman of My Age

A Little Love, A Little Learning (VMC)

4.1/5 ( ratings)

St. Francis Of Assisi

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Squib

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Finding

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Princess Alice

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Walking Naked

3.5/5 ( ratings)