With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of crowmarsh priors settles into a new sort of normal: evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. ...With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of crowmarsh priors settles into a new sort of normal: evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice of rationing curtails every comfort.