Peter Pan in Scarlet Peter Pan in Scarlet Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006) is a novel by British author Geraldine McCaughrean. It is marketed as the "official sequel" to J. M. Barrie's "Peter and Wendy" (1911), as it was authorised by Great Ormond Street Hospital, which was granted all rights to the characters and original writings by Barrie in 1929. McCaughrean was selected in 2004 following a competition in which novelists were invited to submit a sample chapter and plot outline for a sequel. Set in 1926, the book continues the story of the Lost Boys, the Darling family, and Peter Pan, during the
Brook General Hospital becoming a general hospital for service personnel and civilians, and providing treatment for the many air-raid casualties, including victims of a V-2 rocket which hit the nearby Brook Hotel on 11 November 1944. In 1948, it became part of the National Health Service, and was jointly managed with the nearby Memorial Hospital; medical beds were transferred from the Memorial to the Brook, which was eventually renamed the Brook General Hospital. During the 1950s, it also contained a training school for nurses for the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street. An Accident and Emergency Department opened in the 1960s,