Publisher's Synopsis
London, 1942: Thirteen-year-old Nell and five-year-old Olive are being sent away from the devastation of the East End. As the sisters struggle to adjust to life as evacuees, they soon discover that living in the countryside isn't always idyllic. When little Olive's safety is threatened by a boy at Hackers Farm, they must run from danger and try to find their way home. Together they begin their perilous journey across bombed-out Britain; but when Nell falls ill, can she still protect her little sister from the war raging around them? And will they ever be reunited from the family they've been torn from?
