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Tamar

A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal

Tamar( )
Author: Peet, Mal
ISBN:978-1-4063-3913-0
Publication Date:Mar 2012
Publisher:Walker Books Australia Pty, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $19.99
Book Description:

Winner of the Carnegie Medal, Tamar is Mal Peet's astonishing novel about love, lies and secrets in a time of war.Mal Peet's Carnegie Medal-winning novel. When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century earlier. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy and tragedy set against the daily fear...
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Book Details
Pages:448
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Family / Grandparents
Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Military & Wars
Juvenile Fiction / Places / Europe
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.9 x 19.7 x 3.3 cm
Book Weight:0.36 Kilograms
Author Biography
Peet, Mal (Author)
Mal Peet was born in 1947. Before becoming a children's author, he worked as a teacher and for educational publishers. His first novel, Keeper, won the Branford Boase award and Nestle Children's Book Award. He also won the Carnegie Medal in 2006 for Tamar and the Guardian children's fiction prize in 2009 for Exposure. He co-authored a series of children's books with his wife Elspeth Graham. His first novel for adults, The Murdstone Trilogy, was published in 2014. He died from cancer on March 2, 2015 at the age of 67.

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