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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Penelope Lively
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...
