When you get there our mum said you find out your new address & you write it on the card. Then you post it at once. Now the code. Our secret code.. . You know how to write a kiss? Well put one kiss if its horrible & Ill come straight there & bring you back home. You put two kisses if its all right. & three kisses if its really nice. Dyou see? Then Ill know 13 June 1940. Carefully labelled & each clutching little brown suitcases Terry aged seven & his elder brother Jack eleven stand amid the throng of children which crowds the narrow platform at Welling station awaiting the steam engine which will pull them & their fellow evacuees across the country towards their unknown destination
- & their new lives... Warm-hearted & moving Kisses on a Postcard" is a vivid & intimate portrait of our wartime history; a compelling & uplifting memoir of growing up in an extraordinary time."