Wave Me Goodbye

September 1939. As the Second World War begins ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with her schoolmates. She doesnt know where shes going or whats going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that shes going on a little holiday. Shirley is billeted in the country with two boys from East End London Kevin and Archie - and their experiences living in the strange half-empty Red House with the mysterious and reclusive Mrs Waverley will change their lives for ever.