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Title:
Secret Sparrow
Written by:
Jackie French 
Read by:
Edwina Wren 
Format:
Unabridged CD Audio Book 
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Duration:
5 hours 50 minutes 
Published:
December 28 2023 
Available Date:
December 28 2023 
Age Category:
Children (10+) 
ISBN:
9781460735169 
Genres:
Fiction; Adventure; Australian Fiction; Children's Fiction 
Publisher:
Bolinda/HarperCollins audio 
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Longlisted Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction 2024
Shortlisted ARA Historical Novel Prize / Children and Young Adult 2024

Based on true events, this story of adventure, courage and unshakable loyalty restores women and girls to their place in history that the authorities tried to erase.

In 1917, 16-year-old Jean McLain is working as a Post Office assistant in England. But when she wins a national Morse code competition, the British army makes a request Jean cannot refuse – to take a secret position as a signaller in France. If Jean can keep the signals flowing between the soldiers at the Front and at headquarters, Britain might possibly win the war. But the British army are determined to hide their desperation – they will go on to burn every document that showed how women and girls were working behind the scenes, in the trenches and even in battles during World War I. Decades later, and half a world away, an old woman on a motorbike tells the young man she has rescued from a flash flood the story of 'the telegraph girl': the friends she lost, the man who loved her and the happiness she so surprisingly found again.

'Jackie French has woven a fascinating, absorbing and well-written story.' (on Slave Girl)
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'A master storyteller ...' (on Tom Appleby, Convict Boy)
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'This fast-paced book calls to young people to be world changers.' (on Ming and Marie Spy for Freedom)
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