Out of the Shelter

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Title Out of the Shelter
Author David Lodge
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher
Released 1970
Media type Print (Hardback, Paperback)

Out of the Shelter (1970) is a novel by British author David Lodge.

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The story tells a child's experience in the Blitz during World War II and his rescue from an air-raid shelter. Suffering from a wartime childhood and post-war shortages in London, Timothy has little to enrich his early youth. Everything changes when his glamorous older sister Kath invites him to spend the summer in Heidelberg, Germany.