2021/007: V for Victory -- Lissa Evans

2021/007: V for Victory -- Lissa Evans

...all was quiet, a full moon prinking the frost so that the ruined houses looked like cliffs of quartz, and then, as she’d stood listening, her breath fogging the view, there’d been another blast, this one preceded by a noise like a rifle crack, and followed by a flood of orange light above the rooftops to the east.[loc. 893]

This is a sequel, though I was only vaguely aware of that fact when I started reading, and I didn't find the story difficult to follow even though I didn't know the previous histories of the protagonists. It's autumn 1944: Noel Bostock is fifteen, growing up in the Hampstead boarding house kept by his Aunt Margery, whose name isn't Margery and who isn't really his aunt.( no major spoilers )