This is the continuing story of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, but it is not a children's book. Anna is fifteen at the start of the book, which covers several years from immediately before the war until 1945. Anna goes to secretarial school, gets a job, goes to art classes at night, and falls in love for the first time (with a much-older married man). Behind all of this, her family lives in a hotel for refugees, her father doesn't get any work, and Mama is constantly beside herself. The book gives good insight into life in London during the war, and more specifically what it was like to be a refugee, and to be an 'English' child of refugees.

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