In London during World War II, Alice enters quarantine with her boyfriend Alfred, whose tuberculosis doctors think might kill him by morning. She reads him their favorite story--"Alice in Wonderland"--and soon has difficulty separating reality from the story. Eventually Alice is forced to choose between the comfort of the story and the pain of real life.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: books and reading, fiction, orphans, friendship, subways, london (england), world war, 1939-1945, historical fiction, great britain, history, 20th century, fiction, historical fiction