February, 1941: after months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast, where the only person with two spare beds turns out to be Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper – a man neither used to company nor keen on taking in evacuees. Desperate to make herself useful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying what she likes to think of as secret messages to the villagers. But Olive is hiding a secret of her own: her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid, and Olive is determined to find out what happened to her. We weren’t supposed to be going to the pictures that night. 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. Then Olive finds a strange coded note that seems to link Sukie to Devon – and to something dark and impossibly dangerous.
ISBN 13: 9780571327584
Author: Emma Carroll
