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n. (plural of sapling English)
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Although Saplings (1945) is generally regarded as one of Noel Streatfeild's novels for adults, published under her pseudonym Susan Scarlett, it is at least partially told from the perspective of four children - Laurel, Tony, Tuesday, and Kim, as well as from the perspective of their mother, Lena. The Wiltshires are an idyllic middle-class family living in the comforts of Regent's Park in pre-Second World War London.
However, with the breakdown of society under German attack, the family, like so many others in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, begins to undergo its own rapid disintegration.
Streatfeild weaves between the fantasy and make-believe of her children's books and a more mature psychological realism, thereby conjuring a unique and compelling account of the far-reaching corrosiveness of war.
In 2004 Saplings was made into a ten-part radio series on BBC Radio 4. It was also featured on Radio 4's 'A Good Read' in October 2009.
Saplings was republished by Persephone Books in 2000
Usage examples of "saplings".
Each hut had been erected over a frame of spruce saplings, brought from the forests to the south.
Animals simply burst into flame: Raptors burned like saplings and great armored herbivores cooked in their own monstrous shells.
In the open spaces there was a ground cover of ground ferns, saplings, and pineapple-shrub cycadeoids.
Whips raised, spears ready, they crept through the rough scrub of saplings and ferns that crowded the edge of the forest.
And already saplings were sprouting, beginning a ruthless vegetable race to steal the light and plug that hole in the canopy.
They had been built of thick saplings set in rough circles in holes in the ground.
The gaps between the saplings were filled with rattan cane split into switches, and overlapping leaves, bunches of rushes, bark.
The saplings were bent over together and their ends pushed over and under each other.
The blind was just a lean-to frame of saplings, loosely woven together and covered with palm fronds and grass.
She was sheltered by a hut Cuin had hastily built of saplings and bark.
Twice was it cut before my time, and once since, and each time saplings sprang from the stumps with speed uncanny.
Sitting in chatty circles weaving baskets from thin strips of wood split from saplings or twisting net cords from the fibers in the inner skins of bark stripped from those same saplings, they spoke to each other, their words indirect questions of Aleytys and Shadith, Wakille or Linfyar.
Shadith grinned and rode on, trampling the bracken and the spindly saplings clinging to the ungenerous edge of the island.
As the strongest of the four, Aleytys did the driving, Wakille cut and fetched the saplings for her, sliced the ends to points, Shadith and Linfyar took smaller branches and wove them horizontally between the verticals.
Loitering along, far off the track, they crossed a little ridge where stringybark trees, with an undergrowth of bushes and saplings, formed a regular thicket.