WWII books

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I like books set in WWII, particularly set in London, can anyone recommend any please?

All the light we cannot see. I think bits are set in London... I can't remember but it's brilliant!!!!

Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Cazalet Chronicles start in the 1930s and span the war years. Partly set in London and also in the country

I second the Cazalets. They are amazing.

Anthony Quinn - can't remember titles offhand, but I think a couple of his are set in wartime London.

Yes to All the Light, although I was very disappointed with the ending.

Kate Atkinson - Transcription
Sarah Waters - The Night Watch

think they are are both sent wholly in London, loved both of them.

The New Mrs Clifton by Elizabeth Buchan.

Requiem for A Wren (not set in London though)

The Rose Code, Kate Quinn. Set at Bletchley, not in London.

The Chamomile Lawn is an old fave.

The century trilogy by Ken Fillet, the second book it's about world war two and London.

Follet!

Need to write all these down! The Night Watch is wonderful.

The Whalebone Theatre Joanna Quinn, though a lot is in France as well as London.
Everyone Brave is Forgiven Chris Cleave.

If you can find it, In Spite of all Terror by Hester Burton. A fifteen year old grammar school girl is evacuated from the East End to Oxfordshire. The book covers how she settles in with her host family, Dunkirk and London in the Blitz.

Also, Murder by Matchlight, a Golden Age murder mystery by E.C.R. Lorac. Available on Faded Page: www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200435

Yes, Cazalets! Wonderful!
And Life after Life by Kate Atkinson is breath-taking x

I loved The Night Watch! Was going to recommend it, but see you've already read it.

The Avenue books by RF Delderfield

Thunder in the Sky by Molly Lefubre it’s based on her own experiences but fiction but it was very atmospheric . Elizabeth Bowen Heat of the Day gets very good reviews as well although it’s years since I read it .

Loved life after life, liked the TV adaption too.

Have you read any Diney Costelloe’s?

Machine Gunners - Robert Westall
Dolphin Crossing - Jill Paton Walsh

Both children’s books, but are favourites of mine.

To second @FormerCarer@FormerCarerThe Former Mrs Clifton by Elizabeth Buchan is a beautiful, achingly moving book. It's set during the immediate aftermath of WW2, and I read it during the second lock down. The dreariness, guilt and beaurocratic annoyances resonated in such a profound way.

Farleigh Fields - Rhys Bowen

V2 - Robert Harris

Also Robert Harris - Enigma
Yet another vote for the Cazalets
Saplings by Noel Streatfeild - it's one of her adult books, really enjoyed it