![]() ![]() 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. ![]() But it’s not that sad because none of the three children really knew Grandmother. The story begins in1940s London with a funeral. When their grandmother dies, 12-year-old William, 11-year-old Edmund, and 9-year-old Anna are left in London in the care of an elderly housekeeper. 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. A PLACE TO HANG THE MOON is her debut novel. Young readers will find kindred spirits in A Place to Hang the Moon, a story of three displaced children in wartime Britain. Three plucky orphan siblings are in search of a mother in wartime England. ![]() 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. Anna, Edmund and William aren’t terribly upset by the death of their not-so-grandmotherly grandmother. ![]()
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