Beautifully written

 

I was asked by Lovereading to review this Friends- Ellen, Ash and Daniel and the timeline of Ellen between 1955 and her childhood during the second world war.
The children essentially brought themselves up, and at the same time experiencing, trauma, loss and abuse. These are damaged children and the author paints a bleak but realistic view on this. The war is painted as should be war is never good, and finding a german pilot who has crashed is difficult for anyone to digest let alone young people. Ellen's evacuation is no Narnia story and is difficult and rather lonely.

Beautifully written and well researched.