September 1939 As the Second World War begins ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with her schoolmates She doesn't know where she's going or what's going to happen to her when she gets there All she has been told is that she's going on a little holiday' Shirley is billeted in the country with two boys from East End London Kevin & Archie
- & their experiences living in the strange half-empty Red House with the mysterious & reclusive Mrs Waverley will change their lives for ever Award-winning bestselling & beloved author Jacqueline Wilson turns to this period of history for the first time in this beautiful moving story of friendship & bravery against the backdrop of the worst conflict the world has ever known