![]() ![]() "There were so many people who were brought up on her children's books, and then graduated to her older novels, going on to read her books to their own kids as well," said Goodings. ![]() "She was very wise, fiercely gentle, very funny and irreverent," she said. Goodings called Bawden "a wonderful storyteller", who made "powerful and extraordinarily acute observations about what makes us human" in her short novels. Described by the novelist PD James as "among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today", she was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1987 for Circles of Deceit, and for the Lost Booker of 1970 for The Birds on the Trees, also receiving the PEN Award for a Lifetime's Service to Literature in 2004. Bawden is best known for two children's novels, the 1973 title Carrie's War, in which two children are evacuated to a Welsh village, and The Peppermint Pig, a story first published in 1975 which told of the naughty runt of a litter of pigs. ![]()
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