Summary

In Chapter 22, Emmy lied to the woman at the IIP office, telling her she was 18 and that her father was recovering in a hospital. She felt to had to lie to keep from being sent to a children’s home. If that happened she wouldn’t be able to continue to look for her sister. Emmy realized as she walked to the makeshift morgue that she was no longer allowed to be a child, the war had forced her to grow up. At the morgue, Emmy was told her mother had been buried that morning in Tower Hamlets. The man at the morgue told her that her mother had been in the basement of the Sharington Crescent Hotel when it was hit by a bomb and the upper floors collapsed into the basement. He offered to get the handbag found with...