The Girl With No Name
A heart-wrenching story from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children.
Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind.
Lonely and homesick, Lisa is adopted by a childless couple. But when the Blitz blows her new home apart, she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she is or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and despatch her to a children's home.
With the war raging around her, what will become of Lisa now?
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About the Author
My name is Diney Costeloe, but I also write under the name of Diney Delancey. I am the daughter of a London publisher, and was always encouraged by my father to write. At the age of five I wrote my first book. It was called TOM'S PARTY. It was written long-hand of course, in pencil, on lined paper. Long and difficult words, like 'afternoon' took up a whole line. When this opus was finished I gave it to my father who took it to his office. It came home again in a cardboard cover with a white label on the front and on it was typed TOM'S PARTY, written by Diney, published by Daddy.
All through my childhood I wrote stories and poems, still long-hand. Indeed I still have the hard-backed notebook in which I wrote out my poems.
When I left college as a qualified primary school teacher, I started to write short stories and articles, many of which were published in magazines, newspapers and read on the radio.