Charlotte Gray

Faulks, Sebastian

| 1998

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New York Times bestseller by award-winning author of Birdsong Charlotte Gray tells the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. Here she will come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place during Europe's darkest years, and will confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days. Vividly rendered, tremendously moving, and with a narrative sweep and power reminiscent...

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Cindy Kempe

2022-06-07

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Charlotte Gray är en spännande karaktär som jag trivs med att läsa om. En berättelse om mod, mänsklighet, gränser och brister men också djup kärlek till såväl partner, vänner, föräldrar och barn.