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Here's a list for all those books set after the evacuees return home, set throughout Britain in the 1940s and 1950s (and later, if relevant, i.e. gentrification).

Post-War reconstruction, bombed sites as adventure playgrounds, demolition of ruined structures and neighbourhoods, urban renewal (and, typically, gentrification). Hard times.

Fiction and non-fiction alike, all genres, all target ages.

Related lists:
Children's WWII Fiction Set in the UK: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
War Guests in Children's Literature: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
Best Post-War Novels: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
20th Century Manchester: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
please recommend other related lists, and I'll link them
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message 1: by Louise (new)

Louise Culmer Family From One End Street is not postwar, it was published in 1937.


message 2: by Capn (new)

Capn Louise wrote: "Family From One End Street is not postwar, it was published in 1937."

Oh, thanks, Louise - I'll unvote.


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