Heart of a Child (novel)

Heart of a Child
	First edition
Author	Phyllis Bottome
Language	English
Genre	Drama
Publisher	Faber and Faber
Publication date	1940
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

Heart of a Child is a 1940 novel by the British writer Phyllis Bottome. Set in the Tirol, Austria, it focuses on a boy and his pet Saint Bernard^[1]

Adaptation

In 1958 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Clive Donner and starring Jean Anderson, Donald Pleasence and Maureen Pryor.^[2]

References

^ Jones p.96 (location of novel corrected)
^ Goble p.49

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Jones, Amanda. Bringing Up War-Babies: The Wartime Child in Women’s Writing and Psychoanalysis at Mid-Century. Routledge, 2018.

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[1] Jones p.96 (location of novel corrected)

[2] Goble p.49

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