There are six of the Bone children and, when their parents are drowned on the Titanic, everyone wonders what will become of them. But Binnie is determined not to let the family be split up, and she stands up to all the well-meaning offers from relatives to take charge. Her love holds the family together through its ups and downs. Then the First World War starts - and Binnie's brothers are desperate to go and fight for their country. Binnie will need more than love now. She'll need all her courage as well. Set in the Edwardian Age, this is a charming family story from a master storyteller.
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" A simple tale, well told. My favourites by Dick King-Smith remain his animal stories, though. "
Dick King-Smith was the pen name of Ronald Gordon King-Smith (1922–2011). He was a prolific English writer of children’s books, best known for The Sheep Pig, or Babe: The Gallant Pig, as it was know in the United States, which won the 1984 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and was adapted as the movie Babe. He was awarded an Honorary Master of Education by the University of the West of England in 1999 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2010.
Jan Francis is an English actress who has worked in film and television for more than forty years. She is perhaps best known for her role as Penny Warrender in the romantic comedy series Just Good Friends. Her other credits include the 1979 film Dracula and the television movie Bloodlines, among many others.
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