3 entries in the world of The Wireless War.
The front-door key to number twelve is the little iron heart of Edie's whole story. Her father pressed it into her hand the summer before she was evacuated, and with it a promise he couldn't quite say aloud: you belong here, this is yours…
The wireless is the warm amber heart of The Wireless War — the family radio that carries the whole enormous war into one small room, at a child's height. It is comfort and dread in the same brown box: the songs and the story-hour, and then…
The flat-whistling kettle is a small, battered hero of the London kitchen — knocked out of tune one hard night in the Blitz and kept anyway, dents and all. It becomes the family's running joke, the thing Bill teases Vera about from a…