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Miss Carter's War

Book ID
126927320
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Tongue
English
Weight
874 KB
Category
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✦ Synopsis

It is 1948 and Britain is struggling to recover from the Second World War. Half French, half English, Marguerite Carter, young and beautiful, has lost her parents and survived a terrifying war, working for the SOE behind enemy lines. Leaving her partisan lover she returns to England to be one of the first women to receive a degree from the University of Cambridge.Now she pins back her unruly auburn curls, draws a pencil seam up her legs, ties the laces on her sensible black shoes, belts her grey gabardine mac and sets out towards her future as an English teacher in a girls' grammar school. For Miss Carter has a mission—to fight social injustice, to prevent war and to educate her girls.

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