The Place of a Skull

<P>The Place of a Skull puts a different twist on the old eternal triangle. After losing her whole family in the London blitz of 1940 fifteen-year-old Jessica Smith is sent to stay with a young married couple in the city of Gloucester in the West of England. Both spouses one a nurse and the other a naval officer on a few days' leave fall in love with her and the ensuing tangle is played out against the background of the Battle of Britain.</P><P>Woven into this story is the investigation twenty-five years later of a skeleton found under the foundations of a burned out science building at the Nave School in Gloucester. The investigation leads to the untangling of the wartime story and a kind of resolution if not exactly a happy ending.</P>