Riveting Stories of English Women
Aiding the French Resistance
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
In 1942, Charlotte Gray 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.
Jackdaws by Ken Follett
Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent,
proposes a daring plan to attack a chateau vital
to German communications; she will parachute
into France with an all-woman team known as
the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the
chateau in disguise.
Trapeze by Simon Mawer
Marian is recruited by the "Inter-Services
Research Bureau" and enrolled in a rigorous,
take-no-prisoners espionage training course to
aid the French resistance. Or at least that's
what Marian thinks at first.
The Lavender Garden by Lucinda Riley
A bright, young British office clerk, Constance
Carruthers, is sent undercover to Paris.
Separated from her contacts in the Resistance,
she soon stumbles into the heart of a
prominent family who regularly entertain elite
members of the German military even as they
plot to liberate France.
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Oct. 11th, 1943–A British spy plane crashes in
Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger
are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at
survival. The other has lost the game before it’s
barely begun.