Puffin Modern Classics: Back Home Suclass Code_1QB sympathetic

sympathetic

He describes the “dark side” of social intelligence

National Book Award Winner

calm but not dull

Antoine Leiris’s wife

Puffin Modern Classics: Back Home Suclass Code_1QB sympatheticIt's 1945. World War II has just ended and twelve year old Rusty comes back home to Britain after being evacuated to the US. The greyness and bleakness of life in England is a shock, but even worse is adapting to the strict discipline of her family, including a brother she's never met, after the warmth and openness of her adopted American family. Rusty is sent to an horrific boarding school, before finally running away as her search for happiness