Then she finds a strange coded note – a note that changes everything and which seems to link Sukie to Devon, and to something dark and impossibly dangerous.Įmma Carroll has been steadily carving a niche as a writer of evocative and spine-tingling children’s fiction, justifiably earning her writing comparisons not only with classic Children’s writers including Joan Aiken but also the ghost stories of Susan Hill. Her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid, and she's desperate to discover what happened to her. But he's not used to company and he certainly doesn't want any evacuees.ĭesperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. We weren't even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar.Īfter months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month for May (2017)
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