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Carrie’s War is a 1973 English children’s novel by Nina Bawden set during the Second World War. It follows two young London evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick, into a Welsh village. Inspired by Nina Bawden’s own experiences of living as an evacuee in a Welsh mining valley as a child, Carrie’s War is now considered a modern classic as it is a story about a young girl’s personal struggles, adjusting to a strange new life as an evacuee in the home of Welsh family.