Rachel Reckitt

PL 's aunt Rachel Reckitt was (like her mother, Penelope's grandmother) a woman of strong social conscience. She worked as a volunteer during the Second World War in East London, finding billets for evacuees...

Its history of the house, Golsoncott, stands in for the history of the twentieth century. PL interleaves the stories of her remarkable grandmother and her aunt Rachel Reckitt with the stories of child evacuees sent...