Contents

PART I The Children in the Attic

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

PART II The Crimson Sun

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

PART III The Bermondsey Rescue

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

PART IV A Portrait of Jack

Twenty-one

Twenty-two

Twenty-three

Twenty-four

Twenty-five

Twenty-six

Twenty-seven

PART V Barrage Balloons

Twenty-eight

Twenty-nine

Thirty

Thirty-one

Thirty-two

PART VI The Factory Worker

Thirty-three

Thirty-four

Thirty-five

Thirty-six

Thirty-seven

Afterword

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Sources

SNEAK PEEK: Finding Eadie

Prologue

One