ARGONAUT BOOKS

In the Hunger Winter of 1944, two English spies parachute into Nazi-occupied Holland. Half a century later, a fifteen-year-old girl named Tamar inherits a box containing a sequence of clues and coded messages from her grandfather. From the past, another Tamar emerges. Reviews This sombre and distinguished book is as fine a piece of storytelling as you are likely to read this year.The GuardianMal Peet, who won the Branford Boase Award in 2004 for Keeper, has written a complex and rewarding novel which is two stories in one. Peet moves effortlessly and skilfully between the 19...Read More