Bright day, dark night
By: Mary Jane Staples
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780593044810
Subjects: Evacuation of civilians (1939-1945 : World War) fast (OCoLC)fst01710188; Evacuation of civilians; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: Summer 1941 and the country is still at war. Evacuated to a Devon village, David, the elder son of Tommy and Vi Adams, meets Kate Trimble, a cockney girl. As they become closer, an incident occurs which brings home to them the darker intrigues of warfare and shocks everyone.

It is summer 1941, and the country is still at war. In the Devon village of Ashleigh, however, evacuees from the bombs in London are living in an atmosphere of rural peacefulness, until an incident occurs which provides a devastating shock for everyone.