We werent supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We werent 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.Has the feel of a classic. Sunday TimesA gripping adventure. GuardianEchoes of Michael Morpurgo. The TimesAnother beautifully written story. Sunday ExpressThe tension builds until the very end. Daily MailFebruary, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelveyearold 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 hes not used to company and he certainly doesnt want any evacuees.Desperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his postgirl, 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 shes 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.

Binding: Paperback;288 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: YFN; Weight: 376 g; Dimensions: 199 x 129 x 21

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