There is the darkness of wartime tragedy in Six Spoons of Sugar but throughout the book there is the gentle humour generated by a young boy's slant on the world.
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Six Spoons of Sugar - Reminiscences of a World War II Evacuee |
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The people of the tiny village in rural Berkshire don't take kindly to the newcomers from London. And when Father joins them and buys a rambling old house he finds it bedevilled with strange noises and what appears to be a ghostly apparation. Soon after, Richard's father is arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi spy. There is the darkness of wartime tragedy in Six Spoons of Sugar but throughout the book there is the gentle humour generated by a young boy's slant on the world. |
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