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The Short Knife

The Short Knife

by Elen Caldecott
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/08/2020

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A wonderfully unique story of family, identity and language, set as the Saxons invade Britain in the 5th Century.

Young Mai and her sister, Haf, are suspicious of the Saxon soldiers arriving in their village. Proved rightly so by a brutal attack on their family home, the sisters must seek a new place to belong, encountering betrayal, love, and everything in between in the process. A celebration of difference and finding your own way, when even speaking your mother tongue can be dangerous.

ISBN:
9781783449798
9781783449798
Category:
Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-08-2020
Publisher:
Andersen Press Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x36mm
Weight:
0.51kg
Elen Caldecott

Elen Caldecott graduated with an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University and was highly commended in the PFD Prize for Most Promising Writer for Young People.

Before becoming a writer, she was an archaeologist, a nurse, a theatre usher and a museum security guard. Elen's debut novel, How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant, was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Prize and longlisted for the 2010 Carnegie Medal.

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