can anyone remember this book?

[pollywollydoodle]

it must be 25 years old

it's set in ww2, the main character is a precocious lad who, amongst other things, annoys his grandma by going on about the distant blue hills when she knows hills are green .....and annoys his sister by trying to monopolise her soldier boyfriend

not much to go on but i only have to think of the blue distant hill conversations to start giggling and i'd like to read it again

[pollywollydoodle]

he looks out at the hills when he has his piano practice and his gran canes his knuckles and says "hills are green, green..."

his sister is a bus conductoress(sp)

[alibubbles]

That's a hard one, I've tried to search for you but no luck!

[campocaro]

Blue Remembered Hills, Dennis Potter?

[alibubbles]

I looked at that one campocaro, but isn't it a play rather than a novel?

[pollywollydoodle]

thanks for looking...no, it's not the dennis potter play.

[Pogleswood]

Can you remember anything else about it,polly?

[PlumBumMum]

I was just wondering about this as I have a vague recollection of a book were the boys grandmother caned him while he learn't piano, but for some reason,

I'm thinking it might be something I read in school, Call My Brother Back is coming into my head, off to google

[PlumBumMum]

No not Call my brother back, but did the boy befriend another boy and they joined the army together?

[Iklboo]

The Blue & Distant Hills by Judith Saxton here?

[bruffin]

is it set in wales

[TheFoosa]

have you tried this?

please someone find the book, it's making me anxious

[pollywollydoodle]

not yours ikboo,

nor call my brother back plumbum but he did befriend another boy, they were both a bit odd and they joined up... i remember it being sad at the end and i felt guilty for having laughed at him.....might have been in shropshire

will try your site la foosa

[SugarSkyHigh]

oh my goodness, can someone identify this because I am now desperate to read it myself!!

[Suzfly]

How Green Was My Valley? Can't remember author... Delderfield?

[pollywollydoodle]

aibu to think of contacting an ex who i haven't spoken to for 15 years in the knowledge that it was his book and he never threw books out....

[pollywollydoodle]

def not hgwm valley, a much drier style

[ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave]

Try the BookSleuth forum on www.abebooks.com (I'd skip the .co.uk version, or cross-post in both, as most of the UK BookSleuthers seem to hang out on .com anyway).

[LesbianMummy1]

done a search for blue hills and has come up with this don't know if it any of these en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Reading_Rainbow_episodes

[LesbianMummy1]

oops will try that link again en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Reading_Rainbow_episodes