A young woman takes a job as a waitress in a provincial town in 1930s France. A married man from a nearby chateau falls in love with her. They go away together and an ill-starred affair follows.
Trilogie Française Séries
Cette trilogie plonge au cœur des conflits de guerre et de leur profond impact sur les vies individuelles. Chaque roman dévoile des détails intimes de personnages dont les destins sont liés aux expériences intenses de la guerre et de ses conséquences. La série explore magistralement la résilience de l'esprit humain face à d'immenses souffrances. Elle offre un examen puissant et poignant de la survie et de la perte.
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Birdsong
- 528pages
- 19 heures de lecture
Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.
Charlotte Gray
- 393pages
- 14 heures de lecture
In 1942, Charlotte Gray goes to Occupied France on a duel mission, to run a simple errand for a British special operations group and to find her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. It is in the town of Lavaurette that she finds friendship and experiences life under Nazi rule. From the author of BIRDSONG.