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"Charlotte Gray has had a privileged upbringing in the Scottish Highlands although there are dark undercurrents of fear and mistrust surrounding her relationship with her father, a WW1 veteran who never quite recovered from his experiences.
Charlotte moved to London during WW2 in order to 'do her bit' for the war effort and finds herself mixing with a pleasant but mainly superficial crowd of people. Her flat mates have little in common with her. She finds her job as a PA in a doctor's surgery unfulfilling and she begins to get bored.
At a party one night she meets Peter Gregory, an RAF officer, and they become close very quickly. Peter's plane is shot down during a mission over France and Charlotte is heartbroken. She leaves her job and trains as a courier for 'G' section, a government resistance agency, knowing that her training and missions will take her to France where she can search for Peter Gregory.
Her experiences with the French Resistance movement are fascinating and give a real insight into the lives of ordinary people affected by the Nazism of Vichy France. The characters are substantial and real and their fates affect you as if you actually knew them.
Although the book ends happily for Charlotte and Peter, there is a consistent undercurrent of lives being affected by war and individual lives of many of the characters end in tragedy. Charlotte grows in her own understanding of life and the world and becomes a lot less naive as the book progresses."
Fiona Laws, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%
Tone of story
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
- 1930's-1950's
Spying/Terrorism Thriller
Yes
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
War-time military intelligence mission?
Yes
Is Romance a MAJOR (25%+) part of story?
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- government investigator
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- none
Ethnicity/Race
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
Profession/status:
- police
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a substantial amount
Motive of antagonist
- power
The antagonists are:
- nazis
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- France
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
How many deaths?
- 8 or more
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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