Stay Where You are and Then Leave
About this book
Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
Four years after Alfie's father left London to become a soldier in World War I, he has not returned, but Alfie, now age nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he learns his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
Subjects
- children's fiction
- diseases, illnesses & injuries
- family
- fathers and sons
- fathers and sons, fiction
- fiction
- general
- health & daily living
- historical
- history
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile fiction / family / parents
- juvenile fiction / health & daily living / diseases, illnesses & injuries
- juvenile fiction / historical / general
- juvenile fiction / historical / military & wars
- london (england), fiction
- mental illness
- mental illness, fiction
- military & wars
- parents
- soldiers
- world war, 1914-1918
- world war, 1914-1918, fiction