The author evokes the tension as the children wait in the miners’ institute hall to be allocated to local families. Jimmy and Ronnie arrive at the village of Llanbryn after an endless train journey from London. Lesley Parr has followed in Nina Bawden’s footsteps with a superb debut novel featuring two brothers sent to Wales in September 1939. Years later, I watched it again with my then eight year old son, Owen. As a child growing up in Wales in the 1970s, I loved the BBC television adaptation of Carrie’s War, Nina Bawden’s novel about children evacuated to Wales. This mass movement of the young has long been fertile ground for writers and dramatists. The great exodus: children arriving in Devon, 1940. Many of the children had never been to the countryside.
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On the eve of the Second World War, around 800,000 children were evacuated from big cities like London to the countryside to keep them safe from devastating bombing attacks.
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