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The bird in the bamboo cage, Hazel Gaynor

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The bird in the bamboo cage, Hazel Gaynor

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The bird in the bamboo cage

Responsibility statement

Hazel Gaynor

Summary

Inspired by true events. China, 1941. Elspeth Kent has fled an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China. But when Japan declares war on the Allies and occupies the school, security and home comforts are replaced by privation, uncertainty and fear. For ten-year-old Nancy Plummer and her school friends, now separated from their parents indefinitely, Miss Kent's new Girl Guide patrol provides a precious reminder of home in a land where they are now the enemy. When teachers and students are removed from the school, they face even greater uncertainty and danger at a Japanese internment camp, where cruelty and punishment reign

Target audience

adult

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