ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an important novel published in 1946, Barbara Noble's Doreen. It relates to enuresis, a symptom often associated with evacuation and separation anxiety. The chapter provides one example of the most distressing wartime separations for children: evacuation. The evacuee experience is addressed in two parts. The first explores how a child may adapt to different expectations in a foster home, and the second addresses a recurrent common physiological effect of unhappy separations from the mother, namely enuresis. Ruth Inglis's The Children's War suggests that many evacuees rarely seemed to 'lose sight of the fact that foster parents were just that, foster parents' but instead they learn to fit in, although at a personal cost. The general evacuation plan was put in place to remove children and mothers of under-fives from places such as industrial cities and munition factories, which were thought likely to be bombed.
