num_pages: 407
description: Rose, 17, and her older sisters have been evacuated from wartime London to a sea side village. In addition to getting along without adults or servants, they grow to accept and appreciate one another and the `ordinary' people around them. Rose's friendship with an unwed mother, her observation of her sisters' romances, the diary of an Edwardian woman, a relationship in which she is sexually used, and, finally, her improbable romance with a war hero in his mid-twenties, all add to her maturation. By observation and experience, she comes to realize the difference between love and infatuation. She also becomes her own person as she makes the transition from an adolescent into an independent young writer.(Also published as A Little Love Song)
language: English
title: Not a Swan
titlecomplete: Not a Swan
genres: British Literature, Historical, World War II, Childrens, Historical Romance, Young Adult, War, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1727
places: Salmouth, England
publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books