Nina Bawden is perhaps best known for her incisive satirical inquiry into the family relationships of the educated middle class. Less well-known is the fact that she began her career as a writer of tw...
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In Nina Bawden's The Birds on the Trees (1970) a young man named Toby, who is trying to cope with life rather unsuccessfully, states, "Families are terrible"--a perception of family life that defines ...
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During a long writing career, Nina Bawden has produced a large and significant body of novels for adults, children, and juveniles. Unlike some writers who “move up” from young people's ficti...
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Nina (Mary Mabey) Bawden