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After the bombing / Clare Morrall.

On the night of May 3rd, 1942, 15-year-old Alma Braithwaite and her fellow boarders at Goldwyn's school huddle in an air-raid shelter as bombs rain down on Exeter in one of the Baedeker raids. By the time the girls emerge, half the school is in ruins and the city centre has been destroyed. 21 years on, Alma lives alone in the family house and teaches music at her old school. She's moderately content, until the death of the long-serving headmistress brings a new broom in the form of the steely, modernizing Miss Yates. A new student starts too - the daughter of a man Alma hasn't seen since 1942, when he played a pivotal role in her life. Suddenly, Alma is taken back to the summer that followed the raids, a summer of numbing loss yet also of youthful exuberance, friendship and dancing.

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Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date Res.
C9006171590 AB MOR
Audiobook   Earlville Branch . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781471261428 (CDs) :
Author Morrall, Clare author.
Title After the bombing / Clare Morrall.
Published Rearsby, Leicester : W.F. Howes Ltd, 2014.
Physical description 11 CDs (approximately 12 hr., 45 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm.
General note Published by W.F. Howes Ltd under the Clipper imprint.
Performer note Narrated by Charlotte Strevens.
Summary On the night of May 3rd, 1942, 15-year-old Alma Braithwaite and her fellow boarders at Goldwyn's school huddle in an air-raid shelter as bombs rain down on Exeter in one of the Baedeker raids. By the time the girls emerge, half the school is in ruins and the city centre has been destroyed. 21 years on, Alma lives alone in the family house and teaches music at her old school. She's moderately content, until the death of the long-serving headmistress brings a new broom in the form of the steely, modernizing Miss Yates. A new student starts too - the daughter of a man Alma hasn't seen since 1942, when he played a pivotal role in her life. Suddenly, Alma is taken back to the summer that followed the raids, a summer of numbing loss yet also of youthful exuberance, friendship and dancing.
Subject Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- England -- Exeter -- Fiction
Talking books on compact disc
Audiobooks
Additional author Strevens, Charlotte narrator.
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