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Cuckoo Summer

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Bronnie is so lovely with the boys and we also felt that having a man enthusing about the books set a great example. It kept me interested from the first page to the last, and even gave a little emotional kick at the end. Despite the remoteness of the place, war has touched them is several ways and Tommy's dad is missing in action. When the children discover a German airman has landed in the nearby woods, Sally is determined to save the young soldier from the threatening clutches of Starcross and Tommy is roped in to help.

It seems Mr Scarcross has little time for his evacuee, and nor does Miss Gently or others in the community. Tulloch's obvious love for the Lake District and its wildlife also breathes through the pages of the story, which are filled with incidental descriptions of nature and its integral part in the characters' lives, and of course the sound of the cuckoo that echoes through its pages. When they find a wounded Nazi airman in the woods, Sally persuades Tommy not to report it but to keep the German hidden.Fortunately, she is neighbours with Tommy and his aunts, who keen an eye out for her as she and Tommy set out on a summer of adventure. This is the start of an adventure that will colour the summer and bring the war right into their lives. The descriptions of the setting, the tarns and the wildflowers all bring the world to life as the reader is drawn into the adventure. What’s more, she’s keen to help him, to keep him secret from Mr Scarcross and his threats of ‘ the only good Jerry’s a dead Jerry‘.

Set in a Lake District farming community in 1940, the story follows the adventure of two children, local boy Tommy - who tells the story - and Tyneside evacuee, Sally.

A great addition to the genre, carefully crafted, and bringing great gusts of Lakeland hill farming with it . Wordsworth’s Daffodils is a fitting reference and motif, revealing Sally’s delight in the rural landscape around her. First and foremost Cuckoo Summer is about the friendship between the two children and the importance of family and community to them both in very different ways.

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