Welcome to Litsy!

This is an adorable, smart read for older grade schoolers & MS. It‘s about 3 orphaned Pied Piper/ evacuate siblings during World War II.
One of them is named Edmund, as a nod to CS Lewis‘ Narnia evacuee children.
They are hoping to find their forever home in the countryside.

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This turned out to be so much more than I expected. Caveat: I've never seen the film. Yes, there is a romance, but that's not the whole story. The writing is beautiful, but fairly dense - this is not an easy beach read. Nor is the subject matter feel-good fluff. Perseverance is rewarded, this was, for me, an incredible reading experience. I learnt so much, I FELT so much...just wonderful!
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Had to share!!

3.5⭐️ It was a well told story that was very cute to read. My issue was that there wasn‘t a way of really knowing where one was, whether one was in the more contemporary storyline or the flashback. Overall a pretty solid story. #2025 #bookclub #canadian #fiction #wwii #greatdepression

Last night‘s scores from the book swap on the way home from my private ballet lesson. This makes Monday bearable. When I arrive home I have a wine and a stretch then straight to bed. I even had a pretty good night‘s sleep and woke half an hour early this morning to some online shopping bargains.

Not a new book, hubby borrowed it from our DIL‘s collection for a vacation read. He loved it and recommended it, so how could I resist? Yet another WWII novel, a mystery that kept twisting and turning until the end. The first of a series (DIL has the next book, too) that I‘m looking forward to continuing.

I thought I still had a photo from inside Churchill‘s War Rooms in London, but this is the best I could do.

Unexpectedly fun and enjoyable epistolary novel! I admit the title put me off, but then it was recommended by people whose opinions I trust and I‘m so glad I gave it a chance.