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Sebastian Faulks established his authority as a storyteller with his best-selling Birdsong. His next book, Charlotte Gray, a haunting story of love and war set in London and occupied France in 1942-3, is loosely a sequel. Charlotte is a highly educated young Scottish woman who falls passionately in love with an airman, Peter Gregory, emotionally scarred by his many close brushes with death. When he disappears on a mission to France, she follows him as a British secret courier, sent over to help support the Resistance. Having failed to find Gregory, she decides to stay on to do what she can for the France she has loved since childhood. She and the reader are drawn ever deeper into the lives of assimilated French Jews-- the children Andre and Jacob whose parents have already been sent to the death camps, and the Levades, father and son. Though ultimately powerless to help, Charlotte nevertheless learns a far deeper understanding of herself and her own family through them. This is a book full of insight into the way civilisation can slip into barbarism. Its haunting themes of memory and passion stay with you long after you have finished reading. --Lisa JardineRead More

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  • Amazon

    In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action.

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    In 1942 Charlotte Gray a young scottish woman goes to Occupied France on a dual mission - officially to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and unofficially to search for her lover an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years'. Here is the full range of collaboration from the tacit to the enthusiastic as well as examples of extraordinary courage and altruism. Through the local resistance chief Julien Charlotte meets his father a Jewish painter whose inspiration has failed him. In a series of shocking narrative climaxes in which the full extent of French collusion in the Nazi holocaust is delineated Faulks brings the story to a resolution of redemptive love. In the delicacy of its writing the intimacy of its characterisation and its powerful narrative scenes of harrowing public events Charlotte Gray is a worthy successor to Birdsong.

  • Foyles

    A remarkable story of a Scottish woman in Occupied France pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, heads for Occupied France on a dual mission - officially, to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and unofficially, to search for her lover, an English airman missing in action. She travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. As the people in the small town prepare to meet their terrible destiny, Charlotte must come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place in Europe's darkest years, and confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days.

  • BookDepository

    Charlotte Gray : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099394310 : : 07 Sep 1999 : In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action.

  • 0099394316
  • 9780099394310
  • Sebastian Faulks
  • 1 July 1999
  • Vintage
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 512
  • New edition
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