The Resource Secrets at Bletchley Park, Margaret Dickinson
Secrets at Bletchley Park, Margaret Dickinson
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The item Secrets at Bletchley Park, Margaret Dickinson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- In 1929, life for ten-year-old Mattie Price, born and raised in the back streets of Sheffield, is tough. With a petty thief for a father and a mother, who turns to the bottle to cope with her husband's brutish ways, it is left to the young girl and her brother, Joe, to feed and care for their three younger siblings. But Mattie has others rooting for her too. The Spencer family, who live at the top of the same street, and Mattie's teachers recognise that the girl is clever beyond her years and they, and Joe, are determined that she shall have the opportunity in life she deserves. Victoria Hamilton, living in the opulence of London's Kensington, has all the material possessions that a young girl could want. But her mother, Grace, a widow from the Great War, is cold and distant, making no secret of the fact that she never wanted a child. Grace lives her life in the social whirl of upper class society, leaving Victoria in the care of her governess and the servants. At eleven years old, Victoria is sent to boarding school where, for the first time in her young life she is able to make friends of her own age. Mattie and Victoria are both set on a path that will bring them together at Bletchley Park in May 1940. An unlikely friendship between the two young women is born and together they will face the rest of the war keeping the nation's secrets and helping to win the war. They can tell no one, not even their families, about their work or even where they are. But keeping the secrets is second nature to both of them . .
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Secrets at Bletchley Park
- Title
- Secrets at Bletchley Park
- Statement of responsibility
- Margaret Dickinson
- Subject
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- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Great Britain, Government Communications Headquarters -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Fiction
- Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Young women -- England -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Cryptographers -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In 1929, life for ten-year-old Mattie Price, born and raised in the back streets of Sheffield, is tough. With a petty thief for a father and a mother, who turns to the bottle to cope with her husband's brutish ways, it is left to the young girl and her brother, Joe, to feed and care for their three younger siblings. But Mattie has others rooting for her too. The Spencer family, who live at the top of the same street, and Mattie's teachers recognise that the girl is clever beyond her years and they, and Joe, are determined that she shall have the opportunity in life she deserves. Victoria Hamilton, living in the opulence of London's Kensington, has all the material possessions that a young girl could want. But her mother, Grace, a widow from the Great War, is cold and distant, making no secret of the fact that she never wanted a child. Grace lives her life in the social whirl of upper class society, leaving Victoria in the care of her governess and the servants. At eleven years old, Victoria is sent to boarding school where, for the first time in her young life she is able to make friends of her own age. Mattie and Victoria are both set on a path that will bring them together at Bletchley Park in May 1940. An unlikely friendship between the two young women is born and together they will face the rest of the war keeping the nation's secrets and helping to win the war. They can tell no one, not even their families, about their work or even where they are. But keeping the secrets is second nature to both of them . .
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1942-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dickinson, Margaret
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945
- Young women
- Cryptographers
- World War, 1939-1945
- Female friendship
- Secrecy
- World War, 1939-1945
- Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Secrets at Bletchley Park, Margaret Dickinson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000068878488
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 549 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781529018509
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1201669702
- Label
- Secrets at Bletchley Park, Margaret Dickinson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000068878488
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 549 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781529018509
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1201669702
Subject
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Great Britain, Government Communications Headquarters -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Fiction
- Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Young women -- England -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Cryptographers -- Fiction
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