Strangers in time

Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of children to have been evacuated to the countryside. Charlie and Molly find an ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his bookshop, The Book Keep.