**A heartbreaking and beautiful love story set in the darkest hours of World War Two โ perfect for fans of *The Nightingale* and *The Tattooist of Auschwitz*.** Paris, 1940. Twenty-year-old Michel Bonnet lives on the edge of the law, finding work where he can at the horse fairs on the outskirts of t
Hetty's Secret War: a heartbreaking story of love, loss and courage in World War 2
โ Scribed by Clarke, Rosie
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1789542227
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โฆ Synopsis
In 1939, with the world on the brink of war, one women faces a future more uncertain than she had ever imagined... Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Cathy Sharp.
Georgie - when the man she has always loved is sent to France on a secret war office mission every knock of the door fills her with dread of it being the feared telegram boy...
Beth - orphaned as a child, Beth is coming of age and determined to do her bit for the war effort. Caught up in a whirlwind romance, she marries only to become a war widow... and one expecting a baby who will never know his brave father. Can she find happiness again?
Hetty - desperately trying to make her way back from Paris to her beloved family in England, a fateful and tragic encounter brings Hetty to Chateau de Faubourg where she joins the resistance and risks both her heart and her life fighting for charismatic resistance leader Stefan Lefarge...
However dark the times, courage, determination and the power...
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