Nina Bawden

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Nina Bawden


Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
January 19, 1925

Died
August 22, 2012

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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 20
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Average rating: 3.95 · 103,132 ratings · 6,442 reviews · 64 distinct worksSimilar authors
Carrie's War

3.92 avg rating — 9,276 ratings — published 1973 — 52 editions
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The Peppermint Pig

3.75 avg rating — 633 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions
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The Witch's Daughter

3.68 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 1966 — 24 editions
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A Woman of My Age

3.95 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1967 — 24 editions
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The Birds on the Trees

3.42 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 1970 — 14 editions
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The Secret Passage

3.67 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 1963 — 18 editions
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Afternoon of a Good Woman

3.50 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions
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The Ice House

3.39 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1983 — 17 editions
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The Odd Flamingo

3.49 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1954 — 19 editions
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A Little Love, A Little Lea...

4.01 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1965 — 16 editions
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“Labeled like parcels—Caroline Wendy Willow and Nicholas Peter Willow—only with no address to be sent to. None of them, not even the teachers, knew where they were going. “That’s part of the adventure,” Carrie’s mother had said, and not just to cheer them up; it was her nature to look on the bright side. If she found herself in hell, Carrie thought now, she’d just say, “Well, at least we’ll be warm.”
Nina Bawden, Carrie's War

“All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.”
Nina Bawden

“I suppose I do complain sometimes. Who doesn't? We all know (or believe secretly) that when we were children we were happy and trusting and hopeful and good and that we would still be all these pleasant things if sometime, somewhere, somehow, we had not been betrayed.”
Nina Bawden, Walking Naked