This story, rewritten 20 years after its original publication, concerns a divided family set in the years leading up to World War I and is based on the childhood of Sir Brian Fairfax-Lucy at Charlecote, Warwickshire. It traces the growth of four children who could easily be thought to lead a privileged life. But their father practised rigid economies and the children had less to eat than the servants and wore the shabbiest clothes. As the years passed confrontation became inevitable.
- ISBN10 0575062053
- ISBN13 9780575062054
- Publish Date 2 November 1995 (first published February 1989)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 15 May 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Orion Children's Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 160
- Language English