She was living in London in 1940, where she described the wartime tension as "You felt you really were walking with death—death in front of you and death hovering in the skies.
"[3] She reported from Germany in 1945, about death camp survivors and displaced persons temporarily sheltered at Belsen after the war, awaiting rehabilitation, family reunification, and transportation.
Her second novel, Change of Heart, written in 1943, is about an alternate history (then future) in which the Allies win World War II, but are threatened by a resurgent Nazism.
[14] A collection of her papers was donated to the Centre for the Conservation of Historic Parks and Gardens at York University.
[15] In 1999, Felicity Goodall wrote a BBC Radio program titled "Change of Heart," about Allan's life and career.