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Blitzcat
Publisher: Macmillan
Blitzcat tells the story of black cat Lord Gort as she travels across England through the Blitz in search of her beloved 'human'. Her journey acts as the thread for a series of stories about the people she meets along the way, from a trainload of soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk, to the lonely rear-gunner she keeps company, flying missions over the Channel. And her cat-instincts are infallible when it comes to air raids!
Blitzcat won the 1989 Smarties Book Prize and is a powerful but tender panorama of life during the Second World War. The rawness of Westall’s descriptions, particularly of the bombing of Coventry, make the book more suitable for older children, but it’s also a moving portrayal of a cat devoted to her owner. Few authors capture the poignancy and pathos of war as sensitively and vividly as Robert Westall: Blitzcat is a modern classic.
What you thought...
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Anonymous, 11 January 2024
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Very good book, violent language but I would not recommend for ages -13
Anonomys, 07 November 2022
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While this book isn't for 9+ due to bad language, it is a very good book
Jonas, 10 September 2020
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Very good, moving book
Brendan, 10 September 2020
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I thought it was a really boring book don’t read
Nicole, 23 October 2019
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I'm surprised this is for age 9/10. There is swearing (bloody, bigger, Christ and effing) throughout the book and sexual comments.
Hilary, 10 February 2019
Fascinating and heart-warming