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|title=The Seeing

|sort=Seeing, The

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=176

|publisher=Bodley Head

|date=July 2012

|isbn=037033213X

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'''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''

It's 1956 when Natalie comes storming into the quiet seaside town of Norton and slap-bang into Lizzie's life. Natalie is from the wrong side of the tracks and reserved, well-to-do Lizzie is immediately drawn to this unconventional girl who wears her poverty and neglect like a badge of courage. As the two girls grow closer over the summer, Natalie reveals a shocking secret - her odd younger brother Philip has the gift of second sight and can see "left over Nazis" lying in wait, ready to start another war when the time is right. Natalie says it's up to the three of them to rid Norton of these LONs.

[[Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough]] is a much bigger book, but is also set in post-war Britain, is as beautifully-written and has an equal sense of menace. [[What I Was by Meg Rosoff]] is set a few years later, in the early sixties, but also tells of a formative but also destructive friendship.

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