num_pages: 309
description:  Set against the backdrop of World War II Anna Edmund and William are evacuated from London to live in the countryside bouncing from home to home in search of a permanent family.It is 1940 and Anna 9 Edmund 11 and William 12 have just lost their grandmother. Unfortunately she left no provision for their guardianship in her will. Her solicitor comes up with a preposterous plan: he will arrange for the children to join a group of schoolchildren who are being evacuated to a village in the country where they will live with families for the duration of the war. He also hopes that whoever takes the children on might end up willing to adopt them and become their new family--providing of course that the children can agree on the choice.Moving from one family to another the children suffer the cruel trickery of foster brothers the cold realities of outdoor toilets and the hollowness of empty tummies. They seek comfort in the village lending library whose kind librarian Nora Muller seems an excellent candidate--except that she has a German husband whose whereabouts are currently unknown. Nevertheless Nora's cottage is a place of bedtime stories and fireplaces of vegetable gardens and hot milky tea. Most important it's a place where someone thinks they all three hung the moon. Which is really all you need in a mom if you think about it.Fans of The War That Saved My Life and other World War II fiction will find an instant classic in A Place to Hang the Moon.
language: English
title: A Place to Hang the Moon
publisher: Margaret Ferguson Books