Nellie agreed, mostly because she wanted Eliza gone. She felt she’d been ambushed in her own home and only when she heard the disappearing cab wheels hissing down the damp cobbles of Vauban Street did she allow herself to relax. She sank into the chair lately occupied by Eliza and found that she ...
But thick fog and troop movements, coupled with a forced stop during an air raid, delayed them and it took all night to reach Barkingside. They had been given three days’ leave before reporting to the base, which May largely spent keeping an eye on her mother and sleeping. Their orders were to as...
What are you doing back?’ Tom Pelton, sitting behind an old roll-top desk in a cubbyhole next to the clocking-on machine, looked surprised to see her. In charge of hiring and firing for all the departments, she would get nowhere without his say-so. Fortunately, ever since she’d first joined South...