The Clarendon Boys

Dover, England. 1945: The first trains have brought evacuated children back to their families to face the hardships of life after World War II. In a town nearly destroyed by the recent war, four very ordinary boys find danger in the long dark tunnels beneath the Western Heights. For Peter, the return of his friends brings hope after the loneliness of the past years of living with an overbearing father. But when they find fear and a bullying vagrant in the hills around Dover, can Peter lead them all to safety? Or will the mystery of the runaway's past make them all hostage to a dangerously explosive secret? BASED ON TRUE EVENTS: The post-war remnants of Dover are brought vividly to life in this wonderfully characterful visit into the nostalgia and daring innocence of post-war Britain. The Clarendon Boys is a gripping and entertaining adventure in 1940s Dover full of personal detail on conditions at that time and the stories of boys returning from life as a evacuee. Praise for Jane Phillips: “Thoroughly enjoyed this little gem of a book” “Gripping and moving from the start” “Once I opened the book, I couldn’t put it down and now I’ve finished it, I’ll start it again to soak up all the detail” Jane Phillips began her career as a teacher and dramatist, and she now writes fiction for all ages. This is her second book and her first featuring her home town of Dover. The book draws extensively on on her own family history and Jane has taken much of the detail from real childhood memories.