House of Spies

It’s wartime Britain and the bombs are falling — but are all resident-foreigners necessarily the enemy?

Pip has been evacuated to the country with her mother, away from the dangers of the city. She meets a new friend who teaches her to ride, but on their rides they become aware of another evacuee who is not fitting in so well. He is staying with relatives who live in a remote place, and are stigmatized by the village as enemy foreigners and possible spies. When bombs actually fall in the village, an angry mob descends on these hapless aliens. But in fact they are refugees from similar behaviour in continental Europe, and this is a return to a terrifying scenario for them.

• Author
• Griselda Gifford

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 160

• Publisher
• Andersen Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781842704592

• Release date
• 2005