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The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas won two Irish Book Awards and the Penguin Orange Readers’ Group Prize. John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of seven novels. Whatever happens, this meeting will change his life – forever. One that he is desperate to unburden himself of to Marian, if he can only find the courage. The letters, however, are not the real reason for Tristan’s visit. They fought together.īut in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield and declared himself a conscientious objector, an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft family. Tristan fought alongside Marian’s brother Will during the Great War. September 1919: Twenty-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft.
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