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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.

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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. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. But he's not used to company and he certainly doesn't want any evacuees.

Desperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers. But Olive has a secret of her own. Her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid, and she's desperate to discover what happened to her. And then she finds a strange coded note which seems to link Sukie to Devon, and to something dark and impossibly dangerous.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

In Darkling Wood

Emma Carroll, 2015

The Little Match Girl Strikes Back

Lauren Child, Emma Carroll, 2022

Sky Chasers

Emma Carroll, 2018

Frost Hollow Hall

Emma Carroll, 2013

The Poe Estate

Polly Shulman, 2015

Schoolhouse Mystery

Gertrude Chandler Warner, David Cunningham, 1965

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz

Robin Stevens, 2023

Girl in the Blue Coat

Monica Hesse, 2016