| London Pride | |
| Author: | Phyllis Bottome |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber (UK) Little, Brown (US) |
| Release Date: | 1941 |
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London Pride is a 1941 novel by the British writer Phyllis Bottome.[1] It takes place in wartime London and follows an East End family during the height of The Blitz during the summer of 1940. It is seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy Ben, named after Big Ben, whose mother is a charwoman and his father is a docker. During the novel his neighbours are killed in an air raid and his own house bombed before he is eventually evacuated to the countryside at the conclusion.[2]