by Kate Albus (Author), Polly Lee (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin

 I enjoyed every minute of this audiobook, even the sad and angry places. Author Kate Albus’ written words and Polly Lee‘s narration perfectly placed me right there in the English countryside as the setting for this touching story.

Three children, twice orphaned, and now evacuated from London with hundreds of other school children to live with  strangers on farms in order to keep them safe from the Nazi bombings in London.

William, Edmund and Anna hope to find a “forever family” who will eventually adopt them. But the pickings are mighty slim among those willing to take in and foster all three together.  So, the children go from billet to billet (home to home), enduring nastiness, prejudice, and mistreatments, even though they are the most polite and willing of children.

There is a secret that they must not tell anyone until they find that “for sure” family willing to do more than foster them. The solicitor in London advises them to tell no one about the estate they will eventually inherit for fear some might take them, out of greed.

It’s a preposterous plan to find someone who will say “they hang the moon” and truly love them, but… well…it might just take shape in their situation when they are placed with a “most unsuitable” person because there is no one else.

This is a truly sweet and feel-good story, that also shows the horrendous things that England endured in World War II, never giving up, and protecting the most precious of their assets. Super well-written and narrated.

FIVE STARS

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