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. 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. Through the local resistance chief Julien, Charlotte meets his father, a Jewish painter whose inspiration has failed him. Charlotte Gray is a novel by Sebastian Faulks which follows the story of a young Scottish woman, Charlotte Gray, during World War II. Simon & Schuster Canada A beautiful, different & successful way of looking at things. Here is the full range of collaboration, from the tacit to the enthusistic, as well as examples of extraordinary courage and altruism. Charlotte Gray makes history come alive as she opens doors into our past, our present and our future, inspiring and challenging readers to envision the Canada they want to live in.

In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years'. 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. 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. A worthy successor to Birdsong' Alain de Botton

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