The Little Ship

Margaret Mayhew

earliest edition we have, 1999 Corgi, 1999 411 pages

Set largely on the Essex coast before the war, Matt, Guy, and their cousin Lizzie meet up for holidays and bum around in an old boat. These are idyllic days of sun, and sea, the golden era of the thirties. Soon they were joined by two more -- Anna, a young Jewish refugee from Vienna, and Otto, sent from Berlin to an English public school in order to spy for his Nazi father. As time passed, the tensions between them...

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Little Ship edition · 2011 · Transworld Publishers Limited · 416 pages · 9781446486177
The Little Ship hardcover · 2004 · Severn House Publishers · 416 pages · 9780727860262
The Little Ship paperback · 2004 · Corgi Adult · 419 pages · 9780552152426
The Little Ship audiobook · 2000 · Soundings · 9781860428234
The Little Ship edition · 1999 · Corgi · 411 pages
The Little Ship paperback · 1999 · Corgi Adult · 416 pages · 9780552146937

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