This has nothing to do with music but I thought someone here might know. As a child overseas I read a lot of British children's books, one of which I lost behind a radiator on the Orient Express when the Serbian conductor threw out the Turks but the Englishman refused to leave. Great story, but I've never found the book again and by now have fogotten both author and title. It might be E. Nesbitt or Enid Blyton, and it might not. It might not even be British, but it had that flavor to me at that age. It was about a family, several siblings, who during a war or something are forced to live with relatives they can't stand somewhere, so they go to an island somewhere and live by themselves, no grownups. On one chapter they have to avoid some "day trippers" which is why I think it's British. The kids steal a cow and swim her to the island, and some chickens and stuff, and build a shelter, and basically live alone till the parents' return. It seemed a great adventure, and I'd love to read the ending... anyone know this book? Especially all you 'catters out in the UK?
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