The Night of the Burning Clive Sinclair and the Spanish Civil War

and the Spanish Civil War has started) and Antonito cannot go back his family and the farm are destroyed

her beloved cats vanish

Shortlisted for The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award 2015

who announces that he wants to confess to a murder

The Night of the Burning Clive Sinclair and the Spanish Civil WarThe book begins in eastern Europe in a little known period of history the chaotic years just after World War I. It's the story of Devorah and her little sister, who survive the Night of the Burning and are chosen to join a dramatic journey to a safe haven, stopping along the way in a luxurious hotel in London and a crowded orphanage in Cape Town. Based on a true story, it's a powerful and utterly compelling first person account of the trauma