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The Wartime Book Club

The Wartime Book Club

a gripping and heart-warming new story of love, bravery and resistance in WW2, inspired by a true story

by Kate Thompson
Paperback
Publication Date: 13/02/2024
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A gripping and heartwarming novel inspired by the true events of the women who joined the resistance in Jersey during the German occupation in WW2.

Jersey, 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island.

Grace La Mottee, the island's only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret. Along with her headstrong best friend, postwoman Bea Rose, she wants to fight back. So she forms the wartime book club: a lifeline, offering fearful islanders the joy and escapism of reading.

But as the occupation drags on, the women's quiet acts of bravery become more perilous - and more important - than ever before. And, when tensions turn to violence, they are forced to face the true, terrible cost of resistance . . .

Based on astonishing real events, The Wartime Book Club is a love letter to the power of books in the darkest of times - as well as a moving page-turner that brings to life the remarkable, untold story of an island at war.

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ISBN:
9781399714952
9781399714952
Category:
Second World War fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
13-02-2024
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
512
Dimensions (mm):
234x152x40mm
Weight:
0.64kg

'An engaging, beautifully researched story of love, courage and resistance in time of war and danger'
Rachel Hore

'Bravery, traitors, acts of defiance and compassion . . . [and] a beautiful and touching love story too'
Pam Weaver

'A wonderful, poignant, heartwarming story of the power of books and the strength of the human spirit'
Louise Fein

'This is a story of bravery and the cost of small acts of defiance . . . simply outstanding!'
Andie Newton

Kate Thompson

From an early age, Kate Thompson wrote and illustrated picture books, and was determined to be a children's author. However, she became a solicitor, which contained disappointingly little sleuthing or storytelling. Happily, following the birth of her sons, Kate rediscovered her passion for picture books and writing. She now lives by the sea and spends her days gleefully immersed in literary adventures of her own making.

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