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| Title Statement | The girl from the Channel Islands / Jenny Lecoat. |
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| Author | Lecoat, Jenny |
| Additional Contributors | Lecoat, Jenny |
| Publication | ©2020Toronto, Ontario: Graydon House,2021. |
| Extent of Item | 292 pages |
| ISBN | 1525806416 (pbk.) 9781525806414 (pbk.) |
| Other Number | 3899297 |
| General Notes | Include's reader's guide. "Based on an incredible true story of courage and hope in WWII"--Cover. "First published in 2020 as Hedy's war in the United Kingdom by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd."--Title page verso. |
| Summary | Hedy Bercu, a Jewish woman, flees to Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands, during the German occupation in World War II. She finds a job working for the Germans as a translator while working against them. She becomes friends with an understanding German officer. And she soon discovers that her survival will depend not just on her own courage, but on the community she has come to treasure and a man who should be her enemy. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Man-woman relationships--Fiction |
| World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--Underground movements--Jersey | |
| World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--Jersey | |
| Jewish women--Fiction | |
| By Name | Bercu, Hedwig |
| By Location | Jersey--Fiction--History--20th century |
| By Genre | Historical fiction |
