Wave Me Goodbye

Jan 17, 2025 7:30 PM

Author:Jacqueline Wilson,Nick Sharratt

Wave Me Goodbye

September, 1939: At the breakout of the Second World War, ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train. She doesn't know where she's going, or what's going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that she's going on 'a little holiday'.

She soon finds herself lodged deep in the countryside, with two boys from the East End of London, Kevin and Archie. But here, living in the strange, half-empty Red House with the mysterious and reclusive Mrs Waverley, the children's lives will be changed for ever.

Award-winning, bestselling and beloved author Jacqueline Wilson pens an unforgettable story about the confusion and loneliness of a World War II evacuee, with a moving and hopeful friendship at its centre.

'A heart-warming story packed with Second World War detail' - Daily Express

'Carrie's War for a new generation of children' - Belfast Telagraph

Reviews

A heart-warming story packed with Second World War detail

—— Daily Express

An emotional and dramatic urgency that will keep readers turning the pages compulsively

—— Andrea Reece, June 2017 Book of the Month , Lovereading4kids.co.uk

Wilson has an incredible ability to inhabit her child characters so precisely and Wave Me Goodbye will be like Nina Bawden’s Carrie’s War for a new generation of children learning about our country’s past

—— Belfast Telegraph

Wilson has a gift for striking truths . . . a worthy addition to [her] ever-growing body of work

—— Rebecca Butler , Books for Keeps

A breath of fresh air. It is entertaining yet tender but by no means sentimental when it confronts the need we all have for commitment in relationships, for trust, for love . . . A real bonus is that the book genuinely celebrates the act of writing - and not by preaching, I promise

—— The School Librarian

Tracy is a marvellously feisty creation: she is arrogant and rude, but the occasional glimpses we get of the vulnerable girl behind the tough exterior are enough to endear her to the reader . . . The excellent spiky illustrations by Nick Sharratt on nearly every page are a perfect complement to the text

—— The Bookseller

Poignant, funny and heartwarming first story about the damaged, demanding and delightful Tracy Beaker

—— Birmingham Post

I think this is my favourite book of all

—— Junior Education

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