Heart of a Child (novel) explained

Heart of a Child
Author:	Phyllis Bottome
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Genre:	Drama
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Release Date:	1940
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]

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.

Notes and References

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