Nina Bawden, one of the most accomplished contemporary novelists, is admired as a writer who unravels the complex emotions that simmer beneath respectable family life. Her first book appeared in 1953. Since then, she has published nineteen adult novels, including Circles of Deceit, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Family Money. She is also the author of seventeen children's books: her best-selling Carrie's War (1973) and The Peppermint Pig (1975)...