Teenage drama, sexual awakening, and the working class evacuees of wartime Britain. This is the coming of age autobiography of Bob Munro and his experience of growing up during the Second World War. Told with skill and wit, this account reveals the reality of growing up in a world overshadowed by the daily threat of invasion. Having won a scholarship to a minor public school, Bob's life is then turned upside down when he and other evacuees are taken into the countryside of wartime Britain with its ethos of 'make do and mend', where the divisions between the upper echelons of society and the...