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Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray

Summary

'Excruciatingly powerful' ANTONY BEEVOR
'A brilliant, harrowing, powerful novel' DAILY MAIL
'Faulks is a prodigiously talented writer' NEW YORK TIMES

In the black of night, a woman lands on the fields of Occupied France. Charlotte Grey is on a mission for the British government to deliver a message and must shed her identity to blend into the small town of Lavaurette. But Charlotte has her own secret, her lover, airman Peter Gregory is missing in action, and she will risk everything to find him.

A million-copy bestseller, Charlotte Gray is enthralling story of love, deceit and courage, and a classic of spy literature.

About the author

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.
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