Diney Costeloe

To all those who were evacuated and to those who opened their homes and took them in

Lisa nodded and feeling in her pocket, handed over an envelope.

into the sprawl of London to begin their new lives.

The sight of a line of children straggling wearily into the hall tugged at Naomi’s heart.

Mrs Carter opened it quickly and perused the contents.

his wife suggested tentatively, ‘

picture of a horse pulling a plough.

She felt entirely bereft

the little bathroom that jutted out,

Naomi sighed to Dan