POUR OUT THE CAT

1939- the Second World War is about to break out and a 9 year-old girl is evacuated from London to Kent and then to Wales, where she will spend the war years. 1950s- it is the high noon of the 20th century and the girl, now a young woman, is back in a London that is painstakingly returning to normality. There she finds a job, meets influential intellectuals at Morley College, then, in the depths of Cornwall hears the call of destiny- which will lead her to travel in the early 1950s through Spain. Here she will meet a fascinating family of artists and writers who underwent their own war and are still coping with life in post-war Spain. Challenge, adventure, romance... Angela Dewar's story is a slice of the century's history in the form of lived experience; as individuals and whole countries struggle to move from darkness and war to reconstruction and hope.