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.