- Title:
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An Act of Treachery (MP3)
- Written by:
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Ann Widdecombe
- Read by:
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Carole Boyd
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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9 hours 34 minutes
- MP3 size:
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395 MB
- Published:
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July 28 2017
- Available Date:
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July 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489399847
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction; War Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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'Widdecombe's point is a powerful one: that everyone is compromised in war and that only love commands real loyalty.'
The Daily Mail
Ann Widdecombe, author of bestseller The Clematis Tree, turns to a totally different period and a different milieu: the French resistance in the Second World War.
Catherine Dessin is 15 and still at convent school when the Germans enter Paris in 1940. Her parents are patriots and she is taught to hate the enemy, but two years later she falls in love with a senior – and married – German officer, defying the anger of her family and friends.
The strains which this act of treachery place on those who love her, and the tensions it creates as she turns from her Roman Catholic upbringing, form the background to an unusual and doomed love story. Catherine grows up abruptly when Klaus, the German officer, returns from a spell home having realised for the first time the evil of the regime he is serving. Klaus now struggles with his own conflict of loyalties – between Catherine and his family and between his patriotic duty and his hatred of Nazism. Wary of those on whom they should rely, they become closer to each other. Rejected by her family, quietly ignored by friends, Catherine has to cope with the unforgiving aftermath of liberation.
With insights into character that were widely recognised in her first novel, Ann Widdecombe twists and turns the plot to a surprising yet satisfying conclusion.
'An ambitious novel ... stuffed full of interesting moral themes.'
The Sunday Telegraph
'I was hooked ... Widdecombe's portrayal of life in occupied France is both graphic and moving.'
Tribune