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Barvick Falls George P. Pelecanos Orion Books FFL Paperback 2025 shaven-headed officer of the lawSeptember 1939, and war is declared. For Bob and Annie Kelty, life will never be the same again, not least because they are forced to foster twelve year old Ellen Laing, an evacuee from Finnieston in Glasgow. Amid growing tensions between the Glasgow evacuees and the residents of the sleepy village of Crieff, the feisty and quick tempered Ellen struggles to settle. Ellen's schoolteacher, Miss Carrington, who seems to take an immediate dislike to her,