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A PLACE OF SAFETY Winner of the Western Australian Premier's Award for Children's Literature in 1997.Winner of the Western Australian Premier's Award for Children's Literature in 1997. Sally stood on the edge of the road, fighting back her tears. How could her parents have sent her to this horrible place? Maybe England wasn't a safe place to live right now, but she would rather face a thousand German bombs than be buried alive in this dirty little town in the middle of nowhere. Evacuated from her home in wartime England, Sally Armitage hates everything about her new life with her uncle and aunt in Sawyers Creek. When she finds an old hut hidden away in an abandoned forest clearing, it becomes her Place of Safety, A secret cubby to which she can escape to dream her daydreams and invent her own world of fantasy and adventure. But when a mysterious stranger discovers Sally's hideout, fantasy and reality become confusingly intertwined, and she finds herself the keeper of an alarming secret. First published 1996 by Reed for Kids: Reprinted 1998 by Mammoth Australia ISBN 0-7336-1118-4 REVIEWS When Deborah Lisson's first novel The Devil's Own was short listed for the 1991
Children's Book of the Year Award, there were many critics who recognised the latent
talent of this writer of fine descriptive prose. In A Place of Safety she
weaves a splendid tale which explores the war time problems of so called enemy aliens,
young love and loyalties to oneself. Sally has been evacuated from war-torn
England to the safety of Sawyers Creek in far off Australia. She finds an abandoned
hut which becomes her refuge. Complications develop when a young Italian also seeks
refuge. Laurie Copping: Courtesy Reading Time |
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