i really loved this book. from start to finish. it's got a solid historical fiction story line going with the children of london being evacuated during world war two. it's about books, both real and imagined, including a special book shop or two. the main characters are memorable as are the secondary ones.
there are lots of eccentric characters who are also believable. don't hesitate to read this special one.
This book is about sisters and love, and it is also about the power of stories to get people through dark times and unite them in unlikely ways. I was charmed by the magical world Hazel created for Flora and enjoyed imagining the drawings as a cross between Narnia and the Hundred Acre Wood. I would definitely read another book by this author.
The story moved back and forth between 1940 to 1960, so it was easy to follow along. It didn't have the excitement of her book Surviving Savannah, but her characters were quite real and easy to imagine. Her tale took us to the British countryside during WWII, and the tale of two little girls who were sent away to a "safe area" during the war to get them out of London. The latter part of the story finds one of the girls working in a rare book shop, when something she finds might help her make sense of the last twenty years of her life. Characters weave in and out of her life, and we hope things will have a happy ending!
