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. She finds unexpected inner strength as a resistante but her previous life in Paris catches up with her.
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.
Greg Duncan is a local author, a member of the Warehem Writing Group (part of the U3A for Purbeck) and recently published a historical novel entitled “Champagne in a Broken Teacup” available via Amazon:
amazon.co.uk/Champagne-Broken-Teacup-Adventures-resistante/dp/B0DPWQL3GH
