Title: Stay Where You are and Then Leave
Description: Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.

Four years after Alfie's father left London to become a soldier in World War I, he has not returned, but Alfie, now age nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he learns his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
Subjects: Soldiers, Juvenile fiction, Fathers and sons, Fiction, World War, 1914-1918, Mental illness, History, Children's fiction, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Mental illness, fiction, London (england), fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Military & Wars, JUVENILE FICTION / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General, Family, Parents, Historical, Military & Wars, Health & Daily Living, Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries, General
Places: Great Britain, England, London (England)
Time periods: 20th century, George V, 1910-1936