Fifteen-year-old Maggie leaves London during the 1941 German blitz to stay in Wales at a secluded boarding school, but when it turns out not to be as safe as it was supposed to be, she and three other girls flee and begin a harrowing journey back to London.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: coming of age, fiction, bildungsromans, survival, world war, 1939-1945, england, historical fiction, great britain, history, 20th century, fiction, george vi, 1936-1952