Off the Road (Children's Bible Classics) - Softcover

It's 2040 and Tom's grandfather is scheduled for a Nostalgic Block where he will be 'looked after' for ever. But Grandfather slips off the road and beyond the Wall. Tom follows and discovers another world from the regulated, pampered one he has always known. It's a harsh, but more natural pioneer pre-WW1 life which suits Grandfather, but which both attracts and repels Tom. Both must decide whether to stay in the past or return to the futuristic, modern world in which they belong. They make different decisions and the book builds towards a gripping race to escape the forces that would carry them both back.

Nina Bawden is one of today's greatest writers, writing for both children and adults. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at Somerville College, Oxford, and finished her first novel the year after she took her degree. She won the GuardianFiction Prize for THE PEPPERMINT PIG, and wrote CARRIE'S WAR which has become a modern classic. Nina Bawden lives in Islington, London and in Greece.