The Angels of Englemere Wood

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Daily Express

Lucy Fisher
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For one young Londoner in a children's home - Queenie Clapton - it might have been the end of the world. Yet swiftly evacuated Queenie, along with the other children taken up by the Waifs and Strays Society, escaped the shattered streets.

Instead, she found herself invited into the stately home of Dorothy Peyton, a recently widowed Lady in Waiting. There, under the formidable guidance of Matron Bailey, Queenie discovered a new world: birdsong, knitting circles and taking tea with royalty.

In such unfamiliar, unlikely surroundings, might Queenie and the other waifs and strays have finally found somewhere to call home?


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The Times Literary Supplement

The Angels of Englemere Wood is by turns a Joanna Toye

'An meticulously researched account of what happened to Britain's disadvantaged children and all who touched their lives when war came. Tessa Dunlop

of nostalgic personal narratives with a detailed social history of World War Two. of waifs and strays, Duncan Barrett