Miss Mulligan's Class

Welcome to Miss Mulligan's Class

Mrs Westlake, Miss Mulligan & Miss Kettleborough

Spring Term

This term we will be reading the book

Letters from the Lighthouse

Emma Carroll

About The Author

Emma used to be a secondary school English teacher. She decided to do a Masters in Writing For Young People at Bath Spa University receiving a distinction. She lives in Somerset with her husband and three terriers.

About the Book

We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar.

February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. But he's not used to company and he certainly doesn't want any evacuees.

Desperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers. But Olive has a secret of her own. Her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid, and she's desperate to discover what happened to her. And then she finds a strange coded note which seems to link Sukie to Devon, and to something dark and impossibly dangerous.