The Middle Room

Across five generations and a century of war, a grandmother weaves together the strands of her family history, experience and reminiscence that make sense of lives lived in chaotic times. The Middle Room is Josephine Lucie's story from the Prussian siege of Paris in 1870 to the last Zeppelin raid on London in the Great War. It is also her granddaughter Florence's story as a teenager in the 1920s favoured with her grandmother's secrets and then herself caught up in the Blitz in 1940 and the intrigues of the Free French in General de Gaulle's London headquarters. Above all it is both their stories, timelessly and mysteriously linked in a place of trust and imagination - the middle room.