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001			ocn964417505
003			OCoLC
005			20230629110057.0
008			161127t20162016nz 000 f eng d
020			_a9781776560622 _q(paperback)
020			_a1776560620 _q(paperback)
020			_a9781776560936 _q(hardback)
020			_a1776560930 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)964417505
040			_aNZWAP _erda _cNZWAP _dNZDUH _dNZWPM
082			_a823.2
100			_aChidgey, Catherine, _d1970- _eauthor. _924138
245	1	4	_aThe wish child / _cCatherine Chidgey.
260			_aWellington _bVictoria University Pres _c2016
300			_a383 pages _b21 cm.
500			_aNovel.
520			_aIts 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who cuts prohibited words such as love and mercy out of books. Erich is an only child living a rural life near Leipzig, tending beehives, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Drawn together as Germany&#x;s hope for a glorious future begins to collapse, the children find temporary refuge in an abandoned theatre amidst the rubble of Berlin. Outside, white bedsheets hang from windows; all over the city people are talking of surrender. The days Sieglinde and Erich spend together will shape the rest of their lives.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xChildren _zGermany _zBerlin _vFiction. _924141
655		0	_aNew Zealand fiction _y21st century. _918597
942			_2ddc _cFICNZ
948			_hHELD BY NZWMT - 5 OTHER HOLDINGS
999			_c38004 _d38004