SuitabookGrowing up and gender expectations
Clarry is described as thoughtful and smart, pushing the boundaries of what girls could do in the early twentieth century.
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Hilary McKay - Author
This is a character-led wartime coming-of-age story: relationships and growing up receive sustained attention before and during the conflict. Its view extends beyond the front to family life, nursing and shortages in England.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a character-led wartime coming-of-age story: relationships and growing up receive sustained attention before and during the conflict. Its view extends beyond the front to family life, nursing and shortages in England.
Clarry is described as thoughtful and smart, pushing the boundaries of what girls could do in the early twentieth century.
Rupert enlists, while the war affects the family and people remaining in England through conflict, nursing and food shortages.
It also includes restrictive attitudes towards girls, abandonment, food shortages and a character’s new life as a nurse.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.