3 entries in the world of The Wireless War.
The Pengelly farm in Devon is where the war sends Edie — a real working farm of livestock and seasons and make-do, and the alien world she has to learn from the mud up. Its kitchen holds the family's wireless, its long table the family's…
Number twelve, Bethnal Green, is the home Edie is sent away from — a mid-terrace house on a close-packed East-End street, with its Saturday market and its neighbours and its front-door key on a hook in the kitchen. It is the place the…
London is the city Edie measures the whole war by, though for most of the story she is nowhere near it. Her borough named in the BBC's level voice; her mother's letters; the bombed, blacked-out, standing-alone capital heard from a safe…