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The telegram / Philippa Werry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Wellington] : Pipi Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 288 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780473462826
  • 0473462826
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.2 23
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Beatrice Thomas lives with her widowed mother and younger sister Tilly in a small country town overshadowed by the events of World War One. Many of the local boys, including Beaty's friend Caleb, are away fighting.When Beaty has to leave school, she gets a job as a telegram girl at the Post and Telegraph Office. The work is tough - she often brings news of sons killed or wounded. She must convince the telegram boys, and herself, that she's up to the task, at a time when women's roles were limited.Meanwhile, Caleb's letters turn darker as his initial enthusiasm fades and reality takes over. The war finally ends, but Beaty continues delivering telegrams through the Armistice, the peace celebrations and the dreadful influenza epidemic. Soon she's running the Post Office almost single-handed. Then Caleb's letters stop arriving"--Back cover.
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Young adult fiction Ōpunakē LibraryPlus YA Young adult fiction WERR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available i2188247
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Novel for young adults.

"Fourteen-year-old Beatrice Thomas lives with her widowed mother and younger sister Tilly in a small country town overshadowed by the events of World War One. Many of the local boys, including Beaty's friend Caleb, are away fighting.When Beaty has to leave school, she gets a job as a telegram girl at the Post and Telegraph Office. The work is tough - she often brings news of sons killed or wounded. She must convince the telegram boys, and herself, that she's up to the task, at a time when women's roles were limited.Meanwhile, Caleb's letters turn darker as his initial enthusiasm fades and reality takes over. The war finally ends, but Beaty continues delivering telegrams through the Armistice, the peace celebrations and the dreadful influenza epidemic. Soon she's running the Post Office almost single-handed. Then Caleb's letters stop arriving"--Back cover.

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