Blitz'An exceptional piece of work; powerful, vivid and compelling' Rowland White, author of Vulcan 607 The Second World War was not only fought in the skies above Europe or on distant beaches. Between 1939 and 1945, Hitler's aerial onslaught crashed into lives across the UK night after night, killing more than 60,000 civilians and leaving millions homeless. May 2026 marks the 85th anniversary of the end of the Night Blitz. But the aerial assault on

the Baddies can't wait to scare her out of her wits

our freedoms are shrinking

it feels all but impossible today

Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time

the father who walked out on them long ago has just walked right back in

needle-ridden streets of Seattle

As she witnesses landslides and forests of falling ash

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Quinlivan's story takes on an Odyssean cadence as she meets her grandmother in the form of a teak tree in Ireland

As the invisible threads that draw these two lives together are pulled ever tighter

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a worthless trinket - or so he thought