The Children who Lived in a Barn Category_Grey Books/Widows ‘An unknown young woman

‘An unknown young woman

A London Child of the 1870s (1934) in which she describes her everyday life in a semi-detached house in Islington as the youngest of a large

when the children are on the verge of adulthood

Robin Hyde often ventures into the surreal

AFTERWORD BY CHRISTOPHER CAMPBELL-HOWES

The Children who Lived in a Barn Category_Grey Books/Widows ‘An unknown young womanPREFACE BY JACQUELINE WILSON 240pp ISBN 9781903155196 The Children Who Lived in a Barn was first published in 1938, reissued as a Puffin paperback in 1955 and reprinted numerous times over the next twenty years. 'The plot is simple,' writes bestselling children's author Jacqueline Wilson in her Persephone preface. 'Five brothers and sisters aged from seven to thirteen live in the country with their parents who, four pages in to the book, are called