Kingdom by the Sea (Essential Modern Classics) (Collins Modern Classics)

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The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. I did enjoy some of his descriptions of the crazy hotels and interesting observations on the British. Only his stomach clamped down tight for action, as his hands found his clothes laid ready in the dark. Joining eccentric Joseph Keilty by the sea, Harry learns to scavenge along the beach and makes friends with some nearby soldiers, until once more he is driven on alone.

In the UK, he seems to like the Welsh the most, followed by sympathy for the Northern Irish, even though he loathes their religious fervor. Cumbrian shepherd Ralph Edwards disturbs the hidden grave of an extraterrestrial and thereby involves his village in the last stages of an interplanetary war. but none of the English papers printed a story saying, 'Tim Flannagan took a light head and is far from well at the moment. His situation of loneliness in a war ravaged Britain, poses a challenge for the character and reader combined - such is Westall's ability to make you feel like you are with the protagonist at every page.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. But Jack (his son) always said that anyone of ill-will could soon smash a door or a window open, and he'd be in a rage by the time he'd got inside. He can't bear the thought of being given to Cousin Elsie, who'd make such as fuss - so he goes away, where nobody knows him . SUMMARY: A young boy is separated from his family during an air-raid on England, and thinking his family is dead, makes a life for himself on the road picking up a dog and living by his own wits and the kindness of others during World War Two.

The language is beautiful, drawing the reader in with vivid descriptions that appeal to all the senses. Another pleasure is to tick off things that are still very much a feature of life in these islands and those which are gone, probably forever. This book goes through so many subjects from Harry’s utter heartbreak at the beginning believing his family have all been killed, to all the different character types he meets and it even touches upon sexual abuse. The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain, originally published in 1983, [4] is the account of a three-month-long journey taken by novelist Paul Theroux around the United Kingdom in the summer of 1982. Theroux rather likes the Welsh, has a lot of sympathy and understanding for the Northern Irish and can get on with at least some Scots.Westall's 1975 novel The Machine Gunners, about a group of children in England during World War II, inspired many letters from readers who had themselves been children during the war. One suggestion I'd make for the publisher is to add a map showing his route -- as it was I was constantly googling the names of towns to figure out where Theroux was in his journey. In a quiet way the British were hopeful, and because in the cycle of ruin and renewal there had been so much ruin, they were glad to be still holding on -- that was the national mood -- but they were hard put to explain their survival. It's an interesting read because I was four years old at the time and have only very vague memories of it but what comes across is how there was a widespread element of deprivation and economic difficulty - the famous period of three million unemployed (it is quite likely, I think, that Margaret Thatcher would have lost the 1983 election without the victory over Argentina in the Falklands which looms large over the lives of the people Theroux interacted with).

Here, he traveled clockwise around the coast of the UK, covering England, Wales, then Northern Ireland, then back for Scotland and the rest of England. this has always been my favorite of Robert Westall's books, but I didn't appreciate it in as much *wholeness*, reading on and off and knowing what was coming, as I did the first time I read it. A wonderful coming of age book regarding a twelve year old Enlgish boy whose house and family were bombed during WWII. Discovering that his family survived the bombing, his parents are furious at him because they thought he had died.His favourite spot is the remotest corner of Scotland where the sight of sheep stranded on a deserted beach sandbank as the tide comes in,leaving them to drown, warms the cockles of his heart. And poor Mr M, so close to adopting Harry and finding happiness again, only to have it snatched away! The book has many themes loss, survival, relationships, nature and all are dealt with sensitively and wisely. He begins by living under a boat on the beach at Newcastle for a few days, and eventually works his way up the coast to Lindisfarne--living hand to mouth, making it.