Rosalind Minett

Who can predict how long retribution will hang over Billy's life when he first meets his cousin, aged five? An innocent, well-meaning boy who so wanted another to play with grows up with the menace of manipulative Kenneth as well as with Hitler's war. His good nature and resilience versus frail Kenneth's talents and deviousness battle in the context of wartime London, evacuation and post-war austerity.

War threatens at the very shores of home . . .  with ruthless Hitler in Europe and devious Cousin Kenneth at the doorstep.

Two boys, one family, a world at war – the invasion continues