Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
THANK YOU-- I think that really may be it!!
You're welcome! It's a very well-known book over here, but perhaps not there given the author and setting. There was a very good BBC adaptation of it when I was a child, and I think I read the book in between episodes of that; I'd have been 7 or 8. It was one of only a few books I remembered from my childhood that I bought when DS was a baby because I knew I'd want a copy (I think I read it from the library). It still made me cry as an adult. DS also enjoyed it, but it didn't make him cry - maybe he's just that bit too young to get it in that way.

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