The Burning Summer Unknown - 1972

London: Inner Circle Books Ltd. Fair in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library . Ex library copy with usual stamps and marks inside. Price clipped DJ protected by clear library sleeve with publisher's price sticker to front fly, corners lightly bumped, missing endpapers, some foxing. ; First printing in this edition. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Good reading copy, no names inside. DJ design by Mike Head. ; 144 pages; Returned to a Jewish community in London's blitz as she didn't settle down the country, Ruthie at first loves the excitement of the bombs and shelters. But slowly the reality of the situation helps her to grow up, to see her mother in a different way, and to realise the hardships people are suffering. The author was a Jewish child growing up in London at the same time as this novel is set, and it must be drawn largely from her own experiences. .