Our favourite gourmand librarian has invited me to start the blog this week, so my tasty entree will be Sebastian Faulks novel "Charlotte Gray". This is a beautifully written work about a young idealist Scottish woman who falls in love with a RAF officer and becomes a covert OSE operative in occupied France in order to find him when he is shot down. The love story that begins the novel takes on new depth when Charlotte arrives in the small village of Lavaurette.
Scenes in the village are vividly painted, some residents have joined the Resistance and are risking everything, while others are using the occupation to curry favour and terrorize their neighbours with threats of exposing them to the authorities. Tension builds as the Nazis close in around Charlotte, Lucien the leader of the Resistance and the two little Jewish boys that they are desperately trying to protect.
Next on my nightstand, is "Children of Hurin" by J.R.R. Tolkien. So happy reading.
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i love books that let me travel (at least in my mind!)...esp since this summer, i'm not going anywhere!!
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