Talking Location With … M J Robotham – VENICE
Jack and the German Spy
Location(s): Hayling Island
Genre(s): Children
Era(s): WW2, 1939
It’s 1939 and a mass evacuation of London’s children is about to begin. That includes Jack, who’d much rather stay on the streets of Woolwich, bombs or no bombs.
When Lady Ashwell patriotically sweeps him off to the Hall, Jack decides he’ll stay. He learns how to hold a knife and fork and becomes good friends with her son Clive, who learns how to fight dirty. Ever on the watch for spies – and when events in the night turn nasty – the boys team up to unmask a sinister enemy.
Bernard Ashley has previously drawn on his own childhood experiences of war in books such as Johnnie’s Blitz, and here again in Jack and the German Spy.
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