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Secrets at Bletchley Park / Margaret Dickinson.
By: Dickinson, Margaret.
Publisher: Leicester : Thorpe, Magna, 2022Description: 522 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780750549493.Subject(s): Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters -- Fiction | Young women -- England -- Fiction | Cryptographers -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Great Britain -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) -- History -- 20th century. -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: In 1929, life is tough for ten-year-old Mattie Price, born and raised in the back streets of Sheffield. With a petty thief for a father, and a mother who's turned to the bottle, it is left to Mattie and her brother Joe to care for their three younger siblings. Eleven-year-old Victoria Hamilton has all the material possessions that a young girl could want. But her mother Grace is cold and distant, making no secret of the fact that she never wanted a child, and Victoria is sent to boarding school. In 1940, Mattie and Victoria meet at Bletchley Park, where an unlikely friendship between them is born. They can tell no one, not even their families, about their work. But keeping secrets is second nature for both of them...| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Chester Lane Library Large Print | Issued | 20/05/2024 | 38055013154471 |
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In 1929, life is tough for ten-year-old Mattie Price, born and raised in the back streets of Sheffield. With a petty thief for a father, and a mother who's turned to the bottle, it is left to Mattie and her brother Joe to care for their three younger siblings. Eleven-year-old Victoria Hamilton has all the material possessions that a young girl could want. But her mother Grace is cold and distant, making no secret of the fact that she never wanted a child, and Victoria is sent to boarding school. In 1940, Mattie and Victoria meet at Bletchley Park, where an unlikely friendship between them is born. They can tell no one, not even their families, about their work. But keeping secrets is second nature for both of them...
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