Blitzed

A time-slip into London in the Blitz is occasioned by a visit to Eden camp in Yorkshire. World War II mad George Wetherall learns that there was more than the Dunkirk Spirit of popular myth – there was also deprivation, loss, pain and those who went through the pockets of their own dead to steal ration books and other valuable papers.

The pace is rapid and reader friendly, the style of George’s narrative is utterly engaging and full of page-turning suspense. Swindells has written another novel well worth enthusiastic promotion. My wife has already pinched it for her Year 6 class.