Two Books Read Quickly

 I've whizzed through two of the library books from my May haul. They were both short books - especially the one by Mel Starr-  and quickly read.

Geraldine McCaughrean -Under A Fire Red Sky is classed as Teenage or Young Adult Fiction. 

It is 1939 and four young people sit on a train waiting to be evacuated from London when war is threatened. Three have been persuaded to go by anxious parents and the fourth is getting away from a violent and drunken father.

After a short discussion they decide they are too old to be sent out of the city and get off the train, heading towards home in Greenwich. What follows is two years of friendship and growing up with much time spent under the London blitz. Definitely a book for teenagers with more descriptions of the horrors of the London Blitz than a book for younger children would have. More details HERE

Mel Starr - A Polluted Font. This is the sixteenth Chronicle of Hugh De Singleton, Surgeon, sleuth and Bailiff to Lord Gilbert and set in medieval Bampton, a village in Oxfordshire.

When Hugh and Kate's newborn is taken to the church to be baptized everyone is astounded to find the font empty- the font isn't leaking but the mystery turns nasty when Father Robert is found lying in the church in a pool of blood. Hugh has to travel to Oxford several times before the mystery is solved. The story is set against the background of the introduction of a poll tax for every person over the age of 14. All were expected to pay a groat or 4 pence, many couldn't afford it, which led to unscrupulous men taking advantage where ever they could.

Fantastic Fiction website has all this series listed

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