Bright Day Dark Night

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It is summer, 1941, & the country is still at war. In the Devon village of Ashleigh, however, evacuees from the London blitz are living in an atmosphere of rural peacefulness, although Daisy Ricketts of Bermondsey isnt sure if shell ever get on with carping Mrs Mumford, the subject of whispers because of her husbands mysterious disappearance. David, the elder son of Tommy & Vi Adams, meets Kate Trimble, a cockney girl from Camberwell who has just arrived in Ashleigh with her aunt. Kate is imaginative & precocious, while David is happy-go-lucky, & as the war is directly affecting the lives of so many other members of the Adams family, Kate & David establish a friendship in the summer sunshine of Devon. But as their friendship develops some exciting undercurrents, an incident occurs which brings home to them the darker intrigues of wartime & provides a devastating shock to everyone.