Good Night, Mr. TomGood Night, Mr. Tom
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Book, 1986
Current format, Book, 1986, , All copies in use.Book, 1986
Current format, Book, 1986, , All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsA battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during the Second World War.
Willie Beech, a nine-year-old abused child, goes to live with kind "Mister Tom" after being evacuated from World War II London, but is summoned home by his disturbed mother
Willie Beech, a nine-year-old abused child, goes to live with kind "Mister Tom" after being evacuated from World War II London, but is summoned home by his disturbed mother
A powerfully emotional award-winning novel about the ways we save each other.
London is poised on the brink of World War II. Eight-year-old Willie Beech is evacuated to the English countryside and lands on Thomas Oakley&;s doorstep, timid and scarred from abuse. Mr. Tom, a gruff but kindly old man, is deeply moved for the boy, treating him with a gentleness he&;s forgotten he&;s even capable of. With Mr. Tom&;s help, Willie forgets his hateful past and learns to love a world he never knew existed, a world of friendship and affection and joy.
But then a telegram comes, and Willie is ordered to return to London. When weeks pass without word from him, Mr. Tom sets out for London to once again rescue the boy he&;s come to love as a son.
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