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WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S FICTION It is a difficult year for the Greengrasses. Poll's father has lost his job and gone overseas, the family are living off the charity of two aunts, and Poll and her brother Theo just can't seem to keep out of trouble. It takes a tiny, mischievous pig to bring laughter back into their lives.

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No writer is better than Bawden at conveying the alienation of childhood * Times Literary Supplement * One of the most subtly innovative of modern writers for children * TES * Nina Bawden is a master at capturing the taste of growing up * New York Times * What a consummate storymaker Nina Bawden is -- Michael Morpurgo Warm and funny, this tale of a pint-size pig and the family he saves will take up a giant space in your heart -- Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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Nina Bawden (1925-2012), CBE, was one of Britain's most distinguished and best-loved novelists, both for adults and children (Peppermint Pig and Carrie's War being among her most famous books for young people). She has published over forty novels and an autobiography, In My Own Time. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit and her novel Family Money was filmed by Channel 4, starring Claire Boom and June Whitfield. In 2004 she received the S. T. Dupont Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Contribution to Literature.

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