A place to hang the moon kate albus6/28/2023 Which is really all you need in a mum, if you think about it. Most important, it’s a place where someone thinks they all three hung the moon. Nevertheless, Nora’s cottage is a place of bedtime stories and fireplaces, of vegetable gardens and hot, milky tea. They seek comfort in the village lending library, whose kind librarian, Nora Muller, seems an excellent candidate except that she has a German husband whose whereabouts are currently unknown. Moving from one billet to another, the children suffer the cruel trickery of foster brothers, the cold realities of outdoor toilets and the hollowness of empty tummies. Could the mass wartime evacuation be the answer? It’s a preposterous plan, but off they go – keeping their predicament a secret – and hoping to be placed in a temporary home that ends up being more… forever-ish. But the children do need a guardian, and in the dark days of second World War London, those are in rather short supply. It is 1940 and Anna, 9, Edmund, 11, and William, 12, have just lost their grandmother. Anna, Edmund and William aren’t terribly upset by the death of their not-so-grandmotherly grandmother. Set against the backdrop of World War II, Anna, Edmund, and William are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, bouncing from home to home in search of a permanent family.
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