The Second World War the way a child actually met it — not on a map, but through the family wireless in the corner: the dial's amber glow, a voice that might be true or might be a lie. Thirteen countries, thirteen windows, and always kept hope.
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Edie Fletcher is ten years old when the war sends her away — a London girl put on a train with a label round her neck and…
Tom Pengelly is the farm boy Edie is billeted alongside — first her rival, all "vacky" taunts and turned shoulders, then her…
Vera Fletcher is Edie's mother — the steady heart of the Bethnal Green house and the voice in the letters that reach Edie in…
The front-door key to number twelve is the little iron heart of Edie's whole story. Her father pressed it into her hand the…
The wireless is the warm amber heart of The Wireless War — the family radio that carries the whole enormous war into one small…
The Pengelly farm in Devon is where the war sends Edie — a real working farm of livestock and seasons and make-do, and the alien…
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