It is June 1941 in war-scarred Liverpool. Tim Oliver, back at home now the Blitz has ended, is finding life a struggle. He fails to win a place at the Collegiate, where his father had been a star pupil. Angry and ashamed, he considers himself ‘a kind of war casualty’, and gives up on school until, with the help of a mysterious ‘friend of the family’ he finally wins through.Tim’s struggles are played out against the background of the last four years of the war.A sequel to ‘Tim Oliver, evacuee’, ‘Evacuees Return’ is a fictionalised memoir.