This cheering evacuation memoir is a nostalgic treat and the perfect antidote to misery For fans of wartime memoirs and authors such as Diana Athill and Laurie Lee Terence's most famous play, There's A Girl In My Soup, was London's longest-running comedy and a worldwide smash hit. His script for the equally successful film, won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award in 1970 for Best British Comedy Screenplay; His radio play for BBC Radio Four, on which Kisses On A Postcard is based, won The Giles Cooper Play Of The Year Award

'When you get there', our mum said, 'you find out your new address and you write it on the card. Then you post it at once. Now, the code. Our secret code ...You know how to write a kiss? Well, put one kiss if it's horrible and I'll come straight there and bring you back home. You put two kisses if it's all right. And three kisses if it's really nice. D'you see? Then I'll know' 13 June, 1940. Carefully labelled, and each clutching little brown suitcases, Terry, aged seven, and his elder brother Jack, eleven, stand amid the throng of children which crowds the narrow platform at Welling station awaiting the steam engine which will pull them and their fellow evacuees across the country towards their unknown destination - and their new lives...Warm-hearted and moving, "Kisses on a Postcard" is a vivid and intimate portrait of our wartime history; a compelling and uplifting memoir of growing up in an extraordinary time.