Shadow of the Wall
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The illustration on the front of BfK this month is the cover of The Secret of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Collins and we thank them for their help in using Graham Philpot's illustration.
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A very moving story set in the Warsaw ghetto in Spring 1942 and based, partly, on real characters. It centres on an orphanage and shows struggle, hardship and resourcefulness. They cope with lack of food, illness and the Nazis who have walled them in and whose savage and brutal acts continually break into their lives. The scene where the Doctor leads the children onto the train for Treblinka is etched in my mind. Some way on from The Silver Sword for a slightly older age group, with Primo Levi not too far ahead.
