Some news that I’ve been holding in for quite a while – we have a TITLE for the second Ministry of Unladylike Activity book, and it is THE BODY IN THE BLITZ!
We actually chose it back in October last year, during my tour for the first Ministry adventure. I asked all my audiences to suggest a title from the plot summary I gave them. In the very first school event, Tashinga suggested A Blitz of Bodies, which I knew had to be close – and then at my Bath Festival public event Colette suggested The Body in the Blitz and I realised it was perfect.
So, The Body in the Blitz it is!
From the official blurb …
Britain is at war, and a secret agency called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up children as spies – because grown-ups always underestimate them.
Enter May, Eric and Nuala: courageous, smart, and the Ministry’s newest recruits. They have travelled to London for spy training, and are staying on a quiet street close to the Ministry, home to an unlikely collection of people thrown together by the war.
One day, while exploring the bombed-out house at the end of the street, they discover something that should not be there. Something that was not there when the Blitz wreckage was first combed through. Something that has been placed there recently. A body…
Could this be the missing Ministry spy that Daisy Wells is on a dangerous mission in France to find? Or could it be someone else – someone a resident of the street wanted silenced . . . ?
The Body in the Blitz will be out on the 12th of October, and you can pre-order it NOW! And if you want to know what the cover will look like … keep watching my social media accounts over the next week or so …
