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I didn’t know much about the book before I picked it up and was nearly put off by people talking about the author writing through as ged younger self.

Anna can only bring one stuffed animal with her, and must choose between a pink rabbit and a fluffy dog that was more expensive and is newer. Anna passes absolutely as an English born and bred young women – until of course she encounters officialdom and background checks. Published in 1968 and never out of print in the fifty years since, it has become a much-loved classic and perennial bestseller. When there was music on the radio in the lounge it seemed to her unbearably beautiful, and the sight of the dead men’s clothes at work made her unbearably sad. But Anna's parents never really came to terms with the awful upheaval in their lives and right now there are millions of Papas and Mamas trying to feed their children, get any job possible, unable to believe that there's a world that is safe.

Judith Kerr here continues her wonderful trilogy (this is part 2) in which she turns her own life into fiction. Papa can’t find much work as a journalist, as the Swiss want to remain neutral and not antagonize their neighbor to the north. Auch wenn sich die Bücher nicht Autobiographien nennen, konnten sie in ihrer feinen Erzählweise wohl nur entstanden sein, wenn ein/e Autor/in solche Erlebnisse tatsächlich selbst durchlebte. This book absolutely fizzes - Anna's is so lively, intelligent, naïve, hungry to learn and eat up life - but it also dips into despair and a sense of the meaninglessness of life, the personal suffering which can overwhelm anyone at times, making the `in love with it all' feel like an unbearable sham.To be poor, even desperate, in a cold, foggy country where the natives, though friendly, gargle some kind of Anglo-Saxon dialect…. But what a loss of beautiful literature and her art to the world of her family hadn't fled in time to save their lives. out of 5 stars Terrific at capturing the fear, the despair, the drama of living through the blitz and charting what happened thereafter. The big events were all true, though no doubt she polished and refined some of the minor events for shaping her fiction. It of course adds a particular intensity and irony to the electric sense of being in love with everything, with life itself, as well as the beloved, when this is played out against the background of the Blitz, and when Anna is employed by an organisation which is engaged in exchanging the uniforms of dead soldiers and sailors for new recruits, and she is also part of the firewatching volunteers during the Blitz, seeing death and destruction up close.