A haunting love story set in Occupied France... the arena where many brave women were infiltrated undercover to fight for freedom, from real life agents Violette Szabo and Noor Inyat Khan to the fictional Charlotte Gray...
War-torn France, and a young English girl is parachuted into the occupied territories to help set up a Resistance network while a young German officer, invalided out of action, is set to join the forces, ordered to track down and destroy any anti-German activity.
It was inevitable that Evelyn and Paul should meet; inevitable that their meeting should lead to tragedy. But out of pain came passion, out of disillusionment, love…
Elizabeth Buchan once again sets her tale against an unforgettable era in history with a story which shows how the human spirit can triumph against everything that seeks to destroy it.
'There is a genuine tension and excitement . . . and the characters are utterly convincing . . . an excellent novel' -- Sunday Times
‘Echoing with danger and tension, tenderness and truth, this is a love story and a picture of war that will haunt you . . . unforgettable’ Peter James, author of the Roy Grace series
About the Author
Elizabeth Buchan began her career as a blurb writer at Penguin Books after graduating from the University of Kent with a double degree in English and History. She moved on to become a fiction editor at Random House before leaving to write full time. Her novels include the prizewinning Consider the Lily – reviewed in the Independent as ‘a gorgeously well written tale: funny, sad and sophisticated’. A subsequent novel, Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman became an international bestseller and was made into a CBS Primetime Drama. Later novels included Separate Beds and Daughters. Her latest, I Can’t Begin to Tell You, a story of resistance in wartime Denmark, is published by Penguin.
Elizabeth Buchan’s short stories are broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in magazines. She reviews for the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail, and has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliot literary prizes. She is also a judge for 2014 for Costa Novel Award, a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and of The National Academy of Writing, and sits on the author committee for The Reading Agency.