The Wireless War

The wireless (the BBC family set)

Written for readers who have finished Book 1.

The wireless is the warm amber heart of The Wireless War — the family radio that carries the whole enormous war into one small room, at a child's height. It is comfort and dread in the same brown box: the songs and the story-hour, and then the level BBC voice naming the places where the fighting is. For Edie, safe and far away in Devon, it is the thread that ties her to a city she can hear but cannot reach.

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For parents, teachers and librarians

What is in the books, who they are for, and a copy of the England companion novella to read together.

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