Operation Doodlebug, Tia Fisher‘s “commendable” (Historical Novel Society) middle-grade debut novel, has been spotlighted by The Telegraph as their critic’s choice this week:

“This assured piece of wartime derring-do will win Fisher a new following.”

Read the review here.

It’s 1944 and Stan’s hopes of keeping his family together until the war is over are shattered when his father signs up to fight. Left with his mother in Croydon as Hitler sends over waves of V1 rockets, Stan suffers endless air-raid sirens and long nights in the cramped Anderson shelter they share with their neighbours.

Then comes the news they were dreading: his father is missing, presumed killed. But Stan refuses to give up hope, and when a mysterious piece of doodlebug shrapnel holds crucial information from a prisoner of war, he and his friends run away to track down the truth.

Operation Doodlebug is available now in paperback and ebook. Order your copy here or, better, via your local bookstore and bookshop.org.

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