BooksDirect

Description - Homecoming by Sir Michael Morpurgo

A tender, lyrical tale with conservational themes. Presented as a new gift edition with jacket, with evocative illustrations by Peter Bailey.

Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo revisits the landscape of memories, the idyllic village of Bradwell, his childhood home fifty years before. The seaside village is peopled by quirky characters such as the three Stebbing sisters, the white moustachioed Colonel Burton and Bennie the village thug. But the heroine of this story is the serene Mrs Pettigrew, who lives in a railway carriage down in the marshes with her dogs, donkey, bees and hens and befriends the young Michael. Industrial reality intrudes, however, when plans are made to build a nuclear power station on the marshes, endangering Mrs Pettigrew's home and the gulls, kestrels and thousands of insects and plants that also belong there. A village battle ensues for and against the power station, and the young Michael finds himself caught up in the sad fate of Mrs Pettigrew and the landscape of his boyhood.

Buy Homecoming by Sir Michael Morpurgo from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.

A Preview for this title is currently not available.
Lucky Button
Paperback , Jan '20
20% OFF!
RRP: $16.99 $13.59
My Father Is a Polar Bear
Paperback , Jan '23
20% OFF!
RRP: $16.99 $13.59
Our Jacko
Paperback , Nov '19
20% OFF!
RRP: $16.99 $13.59
The Giant's Necklace
Paperback , May '22
20% OFF!
RRP: $14.99 $11.99
Beowulf
Paperback , Oct '13
20% OFF!
RRP: $14.99 $11.99
Muck and Magic
Hardback , Jun '19
RRP: $24.03 $21.62
Hansel and Gretel
Hardback , Aug '16
RRP: $26.73 $24.05
Didn't We Have a Lovely Time!
Hardback , Oct '16
RRP: $18.68 $16.81