Elsewhere / Adult.

McCoy, Ken, 1940-

Elsewhere / Ken McCoy. - Large print edition. - 402 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.

Eleven-year-old Billy Clegg and his big sister Peggy disappear from their home in Leeds after a suspicious fire in a local mill. The owner says the children caused it by lighting fireworks on Mischief Night. Their widowed mother Betty, badly injured in the incident, doesn't know if her children are alive or dead. She prefers to think of them as being elsewhere. Following various adventures, the resourceful duo find themselves a long way away from bleak post-war Britain. Though successful, both of them are haunted by memories of the fire and the possibility that they caused their own mother's death. When the family is finally reunited, the repercussions continue...

Adult.

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Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Mother and child--Fiction.
Missing children--Fiction.
Family reunification--Fiction.
Nineteen forties--Fiction.


Leeds (England)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--20th century--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.
Large type books.

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