Tommo and Charlie Peaceful had a difficult rural childhood, dealing with the death of their father, financial problems, and a nasty landlord.

Their fierce loyalty for one another keeps them going until one day they both fall in love with the same girl. Then there’s the Great War.

We visit 18-year-old Private Tommo Peaceful in the trenches as he takes us on a trip through his most cherished memories and narrates his narrative of courage, commitment, family, and friendship set against the epic background of WW1.

Private Peaceful was a Carnegie Medal finalist, as well as a winner of the Red House Children’s Book Award and the Blue Peter Book Award. This exhilarating new ensemble has been hailed as Michael Morpurgo’s (War Horse, The Butterfly Lion) favourite work.