Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
London is the city Edie measures the whole war by, though for most of the story she is nowhere near it. Her borough named in the BBC's level voice; her mother's letters; the bombed, blacked-out, standing-alone capital heard from a safe green Devon field — this is England's particular angle on the war: close enough to hear it, far enough to be helpless, safe enough to ache with the guilt of it.