hayley had been orphaned by a buzz bomb , taken a job on a local paper before being conscripted into the raf , studied metaphysics at oxford where he 'd met allard who 'd been raised in occupied france with an anglo-jewish mother who 'd been on one of the last transports to auschwitz , worked for the resistance as a kid then come home not to prewar mayfair fantasy but despairing suburban austerity , the world orwell captured .