Kisses on a postcard
Subtitle: a tale of wartime childhood
By: Terence Frisby
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Bath, England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781408459556; 9781408459546; 9781408459553
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Evacuation of civilians; World War, 1939-1945; Children; British Personal narratives; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: "It is June 13th, 1940. Terry, seven, and his brother Jack, eleven, stand in a crowd of children on the platform at Welling station. Wearing labels, carrying gas masks and small suitcases, they are evacuees, awaiting the train which will take them to their unknown destination - and new lives. In the tiny Cornish hamlet of Doublebois, the woods and river become their playground, rabbit-catching and night-fishing their new pastimes. But it is the railway, above all, which delights them. It is the richest of childhoods, full of colour, humour and the unselfish love that Uncle Jack, an Welsh ex-miner, and his wife Auntie Rose, offer without reserve to the two young strangers. And despite fierce rivalry between local kids and the 'vackies', village life seems wonderful to the boys."--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Bloomsbury.