ALSO BY ANNIE MURRAY

Birmingham Rose

Birmingham Friends

Birmingham Blitz

Orphan of Angel Street

Poppy Day

The Narrowboat Girl

Chocolate Girls

Water Gypsies

Miss Purdy’s Class

Family of Women

Where Earth Meets Sky

The Bells of Bournville Green

A Hopscotch Summer

Soldier Girl

Acknowledgements

I drew on a great many sources in preparing this story, but particular thanks are owed to the following:

The Birmingham History Forum, and especially to the Heartlands Local History Society for their welcome and help.

Jane Freebairn at the WRAC Association.

A number of Poles have told me their stories over the years and some, I know, would prefer not to be named. But my particular thanks go to Lubek and Ewa Wruszczak for their friendship and generous gift of their time.

The website describing many of the Polish Resettlement Camps in the UK (www.northwickparkpolishcamp.co.uk) was very helpful, as were a number of excellent books, especially Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland by Norman Davies, Keeping the Faith: The Polish Community in Britain by Tim Smith and Michelle Winslow, and Worlds Apart by Henry Pavlovich.

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