Off they go, following the plans to stop the invasion and leaving one soldier behind to guard the dead body. But when a body washes up on the beach with identity papers claiming he is Ephraim Pengilly and that he is German, Sukie's fiancé is taken away to Plymouth for questioning - the day before their wedding.Įnter the Americans - who decide that the papers the dead man is carrying are plans for the German invasion everyone in Britain has been expecting. Needless to say, Olive is quite shocked when Sukie announces that she is going to marry Ephraim, as soon as she asked him. Londoners Olive and younger brother Cliff live with Ephraim Pengilly, the lighthouse keeper, while older sister Sukie and friend Esther, who had come to England on the Kindertransport, live with Queenie, the postmistress.
The second story is called "Olive's Army" and takes place Budmouth Point, not far from Frost Hollow Hall. Left there to take care of the vehicle, things suddenly take a very strange turn. Just as the game takes off, American soldiers arrive when one of their drivers, Eddie Johnson, drives right off the road and into a ditch outside Frost Hollow Hall. No sooner are they told about the three places on the property that are off limits to all the evacuees, then June and Clive Spencer, a smirky troublemaker, come up with a game of dare - it's the boys against the girls, and whichever team nicks the most things from each forbidden areas is the winner. With their house destroyed, and their mum hurt rather badly, Stan, older sister June, and younger sister Maggie are evacuated to the Somerset hills, to a large old supposedly haunted house called Frost Hollow Hall, joining other kids who have already been there for a while. Living in Bristol, Stan and his sisters are on their way to get some fish and chips for dinner when a bomb hits and changes their lives.
Story number 1 is called "The Night Visitors" and the main protagonist is a boy named Stan.
This time, instead of a complete novel, Carroll has written three short stories, all set in the summer of 1942, all along the Devon coast, and connected to each other by an interesting thread. So I was pretty happy when I read about When We Were Warriors and ordered it from Book Depository immediately. After reading Emma Carroll's WWII book Letters from the Lighthouse a while back, I knew I was going to have to go back for more.
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