At first, Olive is unsure about Esther as she is different to the other children and comes across as cold and uninviting. A main focus of the story is the growing friendship between Olive and a Jewish refugee named Esther. The story is told from the perspective of an evacuee named Olive.
I thoroughly enjoyed it and could give it nothing less than 5 stars.Īlthough this is childrens fiction as an adult I found it both interesting and heart wrenching. This fictionalised story is as memorable as Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful and as beautifully written as Warhorse. This book takes you to a rural seaside village and the secrets it holds from them and each other. We meet three siblings during an air raid in London and follow Olive and her brother Cliff on the hunt for the truth to their sister going missing. The book is based on a family whose father a pilot was losted in the fighting. I had no idea the difficulties Jews faced trying to enter our country at such a time and wish that our laws would have done more to help.
This book portrays both the light and shade of humanity in its truest form. Well what can I say Emma Carroll has brought an enlightened and heart wrenching version of events during WW2 with the poignancy of Good Night Mr Tom and the sad reality of the plight of Jewish refugees trying to flee to the UK. And then she finds a strange coded note which seems to link Sukie to Devon, and to something dark and impossibly dangerous. Her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid, and she's desperate to discover what happened to her. But he's not used to company and he certainly doesn't want any evacuees.ĭesperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. THE BOOKSELLER EDITOR'S 9-12 PICK OF THE MONTHįebruary, 1941. WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE MONTH MAY 2017 *WINNER* BOOKS ARE MY BAG MIDDLE GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 We weren't even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar. We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night.
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