Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Genre: Historical Fiction, Children/Young Adult
Read: 7th December 2015
Purchase: Amazon
★★★★★ 5 stars!
A truly magnificent story! I'd heard my dad always talk about the movie with John Thaw as Mr Tom, and draw comparisons to life during the war and to that of an evacuee, as he himself had been. He recommended both the movie and the book to me and I always prefer to read the book first, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, staying up late into the night or early hours just to finish the "last 200 pages"! lol. It was sad in parts. The life Willie had known in London and the life he came to know with Mr Tom. Will grew to learn more about life, and death, and the strange emotions he found himself experiencing. But, I'm glad to see Sammy survived! As an animal lover, I hate stories where the dog dies...but Sammy doesn't. A truly wonderful story. Will definitely read it again someday...
