Safe Keeping is an intimate account of a small English boy's survival of
a mid-Atlantic U-boat attack while on a wartime voyage to sanctuary, and
his subsequent joyful childhood exile in America, which paved the way to
a rich and rewarding adult life. It is a vivid account of wartime
anxieties on both sides of the Atlantic, exploring among much else,
death and sacrifice, rationing and food shortages, child-rearing and
education. The story is told through the correspondence between the
boy's mother in England and his Connecticut foster-mother - greatly
enhanced by the boy's own vivid verbatim descriptions of his full and
varied life.