Stay Where You are and Then Leave

By John Boyne

Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General, Fathers and sons, World War, 1914-1918, General, Parents, JUVENILE FICTION / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries, Family, London (england), fiction, Mental illness, Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries, Military & Wars, Fathers and sons, fiction, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents, Children's fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Military & Wars, Historical, Health & Daily Living, Juvenile fiction, History, Soldiers, Mental illness, fiction

Description: Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock. Four years after Alfie's father left London to become a soldier in World War I, he has not returned, but Alfie, now age nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he learns his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.