Saplings (1945) is an adult novel by Noel Streatfeild, published by Collins, about the Wiltshire middle-class family living in Regent's Park in pre-Second World War London.

With the breakdown of society under German attack, the family undergoes its own rapid disintegration.

[1] Streatfeild mixes fantasy themes of children's books and a more mature psychological realism to show the total damage caused by war.

It was also featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read in October 2009.

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