Title: The distant hours
Description: Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Millderhurst Castle on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her Mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Edie's mother had been evacuated to the castle as a 13 year old.
Subjects: Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Evacuation of civilians, World War, 1939-1945, Family secrets, Castles
Places: England