num_pages: 384
description: The four Wiltshire children live a comfortable middle-class English life. But as WWII overtakes the country, the family, like so many others, slowly disintegrates. Told partly from the perspective of the children, but not a children's book, Saplings is immensely readable . . . a dark inversion of the author’s best-known book, the children’s classic Ballet Shoes.
language: English
title: Saplings
titlecomplete: Saplings
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, British Literature, World War II, Realistic Fiction, Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 828
publisher: Persephone Books