SuitabookCivilian life during war
Lily’s family and 3,000 villagers must leave their homes while Allied forces use the area to practise landings for D-Day.
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Michael Morpurgo - Author
This is a wartime story about a child whose ordinary village life is disrupted by evacuation, military preparations and a missing cat. It combines danger, friendship and a later family connection across generations.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a wartime story about a child whose ordinary village life is disrupted by evacuation, military preparations and a missing cat. It combines danger, friendship and a later family connection across generations.
Lily’s family and 3,000 villagers must leave their homes while Allied forces use the area to practise landings for D-Day.
Lily is frantic to find Tips and decides to cross the wire towards a danger zone where guns and bombs are present.
Many years later, Michael reads his grandmother Lily’s diary and considers how her wartime experience continued to affect their lives.
Consider whether the wartime danger feels manageable for your reader.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.