Granny Was a Buffer Girl

Young-adult fiction by Berlie Doherty

Blurb

Granny Was a Buffer Girl is a realistic young-adult novel by Berlie Doherty, published by Methuen in 1986. It recounts stories of love, loyalty and change in several generations of a Sheffield family from the 1930s to the 1980s, linking them to the changing fortunes of that industrial city. Doherty won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.
The first American edition by Orchard Books in 1988 was Doherty's first book published in the U.S.

First Published

1986

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