BOMBS WEREN’T THE WORST THING THAT HAPPENED TO EDIE SIMMONS
Barrow-in-Furness, 1936.
Edie Simmons sees a huge whale floating in the sky. Five years later, that sky isn’t pretty; the whale has been replaced by the Blitz. Her mother is gone. Her father is drinking. And Edie is sent to relatives she barely knows, carrying memories no child should have to understand. But war leaves secrets.
Years later, Edie returns to the town she escaped and is haunted by the story of a dead man. And in 2024, at ninety-two years old, Edie has a final story.
She is telling it to Lily.
‘A story of war, family, survival and the terrible things we do to the people we love. This is darkly funny, fiercely human and ultimately heartbreaking.’ — Jerry Howarth
Genre: Historical
Barrow-in-Furness, 1936.
Edie Simmons sees a huge whale floating in the sky. Five years later, that sky isn’t pretty; the whale has been replaced by the Blitz. Her mother is gone. Her father is drinking. And Edie is sent to relatives she barely knows, carrying memories no child should have to understand. But war leaves secrets.
Years later, Edie returns to the town she escaped and is haunted by the story of a dead man. And in 2024, at ninety-two years old, Edie has a final story.
She is telling it to Lily.
‘A story of war, family, survival and the terrible things we do to the people we love. This is darkly funny, fiercely human and ultimately heartbreaking.’ — Jerry Howarth
Genre: Historical
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