Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a sister, Lou, who suddenly starts having secrets. Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid's Bottom with warm-hearted Hepzibah Green and the strange Mister Johnny, who can talk to animals but not to human beings. Carrie and Nick visit him there whenever they can for Hepzibah makes life exciting and enticing with her stories and delicious cooking. Gradually they begin to feel more at ease in their war-time home, but then, in trying to heal the rift between Mr Evans and his estranged sister, and save Druid's Bottom, Carrie does a terrible thing which is to haunt her for years to come. Carrie revisits Wales as an adult and tells the story to her own children.
- ISBN10 0140364560
- ISBN13 9780140364569
- Publish Date 28 October 1993 (first published 12 April 1973)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 January 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Puffin Classics
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 208
- Language English