Guests of War

This reprint of Robin Jenkins’s classic includes an introduction from IWM, placing the novel in its historical context and shedding light on the wartime experience of ordinary families uprooted by confl ict

When the children of Gowburgh – a soot-streaked industrial town known for its razor gangs and slums – are evacuated to the quiet Scottish Borders village of Langrigg at the outbreak of the Second World War, the contrast is stark. Langrigg, with its clipped hedges and clipped vowels, pride...