Flatlands

Sue Hubbard

$24.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

ONE
01 October 2024

A Sunday Times historical fiction book of the year 'A moving study of an unlikely friendship and the healing power of the natural world'?

Sunday Times 'A tender portrait of wartime youth'?

Guardian

Frida is a twelve-year-old evacuee from the East End, sent to stay with a farming family deep in the lonely landscape of the Fens. Philip is an artist and a conscientious objector, living in a remote lighthouse on the shores of the Wash.

Amid the wild beauty of the wetlands, as the world is consumed by war, they form a friendship that will change the course of both their lives.

By: Sue Hubbard
Imprint: ONE
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781911590750
ISBN 10: 1911590758
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and freelance art critic. She has published three acclaimed novels and numerous collections of poetry, and was commissioned to create London's largest public art poem at Waterloo. Flatlands is inspired by Paul Gallico's classic wartime novella The Snow Goose. A Girl in White is also available from ONE.

Reviews for Flatlands

"'Beautifully-written, and highly evocative of the remote Lincolnshire landscape, the Second World War and the two people whose loneliness brings them together for a life-changing time... Full of quiet drama and sorrow at loss, cruelty and mortality.' - Amanda Craig 'Compelling and beautifully intimate. A classic piece of storytelling' - Toby Litt 'A haunting and lyrical novel about loneliness and the compensations of the natural world, art and unlikely friendships' - Maggie Brookes 'Precise in its historical detail and admirable in its evocation of the large skies and isolation of its setting, this is a moving study of an unlikely friendship and the healing power of the natural world' - Sunday Times, Best Historical Fiction 'A tender portrait of wartime youth [with] an elegiac, gentle quality, evoking the Wash as ""a place between somewhere and nowhere, one of the last wildernesses in England"". A novel of tender quiet voices, and grace' - Guardian"