Across the whole of the Second World War, a London girl evacuated to a Devon farm carries the front-door key to a home she can no longer reach — and learns, through separation, dread and grief, that a war can take a house but not what made it home.
The Wireless War: England follows Edie Fletcher from ten to fifteen — from the London street she is torn out of, to the Devon farm she never chose and comes to love, across the whole of the Second World War. She carries one thing the entire way: the key to her family's front door, and the question of whether she will ever use it again. Honest about fear, separation and loss, and always ending on kept hope, it is the classic British evacuee story told fresh — the war at a child's height, heard nightly on the family wireless.
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