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The safest place in London

The safest place in London
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400201448 AF JOE
Adult General Fiction   Gunnedah . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781743310601
Name Joel, Maggie author.
Title The safest place in London Maggie Joel.
Published Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2016
Description 346 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes Record machine-generated from publisher information.
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Two frightened children, two very different mothers, and one night of terrifying Blitz bombing during World War Two. And when the bombs stop falling, only one mother and child emerge from the shelter. On a frozen January evening in 1944, Nancy Levin, and her three-year-old daughter, Emily, flee their impoverished East London home as an air raid siren sounds. Not far away, 39- year-old Diana Meadows and her own child, three-year-old Abigail, are lost in the black-out as the air raid begins. Finding their way in the jostling crowd to the mouth of the shelter they hurry to the safety of the underground tube station. Mrs Meadows, who has so far sat out the war in the safety of London's outer suburbs, is terrified - as much by the prospect of sheltering in an Eastend tube station as of experiencing a bombing raid first hand. Far away Diana's husband, Gerald Meadows finds himself in a tank regiment in North Africa while Nancy's husband, Joe Levin has narrowly survived a torpedo in the Atlantic and is about to re-join his ship. Both men have their own wars to fight but take comfort in the knowledge that their wives and children, at least, remain safe. But in wartime, ordinary people can find themselves taking extreme action - risking everything to secure their own and their family's survival, even at the expense of others.
Subjects World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction
Families -- England -- Fiction
Mother and child -- Fiction
Families -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Fiction & related items
Families -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Mother and child -- Fiction
Australian fiction
East End (London, England) -- Fiction
Genre War stories
Domestic fiction
Historical fiction.
War stories
Domestic fiction
War stories
War stories -- Adult fiction
Domestic fiction
War fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction
General fiction
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