Charlotte Gray
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Journal Entry 2 by AngelChild at RABCK in A RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Monday, April 17, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (4/17/2006 UTC) at RABCK in A RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Thanks for taking part in my "Clear The Spare Room Floor" Challenge nice-cup-of-tea lol
Hope you enjoy the books hon :o)
Thanks for taking part in my "Clear The Spare Room Floor" Challenge nice-cup-of-tea lol
Hope you enjoy the books hon :o)
I am so embarrassed that it has taken me so long to "catch" this book - sorry Angelchild :-)
Anyway, I loved, loved, loved this book - definitely a 9/10 and will be recommending it to my bookgroup - I want to see the film as well!
Charlotte Gray film website
Amazon.co.uk Review
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 Jardine
Anyway, I loved, loved, loved this book - definitely a 9/10 and will be recommending it to my bookgroup - I want to see the film as well!
Charlotte Gray film website
Amazon.co.uk Review
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 Jardine
