In the spring of 1940 recently married Marie-Claire was blissfully pursuing her career as a freelance artist in Paris. She had no idea that in early May Hitler's armies would invade France and rip her life apart.
We follow her life as tragedies strike and she is forced to flee Paris to escape from the Gestapo. Using a false name and identity she begins a new life in the small provincial French town of Nevers but her previous life in Paris catches up with her.
We see her change from being a timid scared young woman into a strong and active resistance worker who is willing to risk her life to save others - a trait which unexpectedly is to her advantage.
This is a fictional story woven into historical reality, inspired by the activities of my French aunt, an art teacher, who during World War 2 was a document forger for the French resistance. The image of the German soldiers on the back cover was drawn by my aunt in Nevers in 1941.
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