Set in resistance France, this is a grand and passionate story of forbidden love between an English Special Operations Executive and a German Abwehr officer.
The daughter of a British father and a French mother, Evelyn St. John is a qualified candidate for the Secret Service. Trained and given the code name ALOUETTE, she parachutes into occupied territory to fight with the French Resistance. Elizabeth Buchan's novel literally unfolds through the reading by Stella Gonet. She reads with no self-consciousness, as if she were a psychic medium with voices flowing through her from the author to the listener. The many characters have their own sounds and accents, and it is their personalities one remembers without interference from or judgment by the narrator. J.P. Winner of AUDIOFILE's Earphones Award. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
In wartime France an English SOE and a German Abwehr officer fall in love - with consequences neither could have foreseen... I thought loving someone was simple. It isn't. Glorious, yes. Painful, yes. Unforgettable, yes. Simple, no. It took me the war to find out... Evelyn St. John has been parachuted into France to link up with the Resistance and to work undercover. Paul von Hoch's brief, as a member of German Intelligence, is to track down enemy spies. When Evelyn and Paul meet and fall in love, their feelings for one another are fierce, but can never be uncomplicated. And when the battle lines shift, and patriotism gives way to deeper truths, they will both face the gravest of challenges.
In wartime France an English SOE and a German Abwehr officer fall in love - with consequences neither could have foreseen... I thought loving someone was simple. It isn't. Glorious, yes. Painful, yes. Unforgettable, yes. Simple, no. It took me the war to find out... Evelyn St. John has been parachuted into France to link up with the Resistance and to work undercover. Paul von Hoch's brief, as a member of German Intelligence, is to track down enemy spies. When Evelyn and Paul meet and fall in love, their feelings for one another are fierce, but can never be uncomplicated. And when the battle lines shift, and patriotism gives way to deeper truths, they will both face the gravest of challenges.
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Set in resistance France, this is a grand and passionate story of forbidden love between an English Special Operations Executive and a German Abwehr officer.
The daughter of a British father and a French mother, Evelyn St. John is a qualified candidate for the Secret Service. Trained and given the code name ALOUETTE, she parachutes into occupied territory to fight with the French Resistance. Elizabeth Buchan's novel literally unfolds through the reading by Stella Gonet. She reads with no self-consciousness, as if she were a psychic medium with voices flowing through her from the author to the listener. The many characters have their own sounds and accents, and it is their personalities one remembers without interference from or judgment by the narrator. J.P. Winner of AUDIOFILE's Earphones Award. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
I thought loving someone was simple. It isn't. Glorious, yes. Painful, yes. Unforgettable, yes. Simple, no. It took me the war to find out...
Evelyn St. John has been parachuted into France to link up with the Resistance and to work undercover. Paul von Hoch's brief, as a member of German Intelligence, is to track down enemy spies.
When Evelyn and Paul meet and fall in love, their feelings for one another are fierce, but can never be uncomplicated. And when the battle lines shift, and patriotism gives way to deeper truths, they will both face the gravest of challenges. In wartime France an English SOE and a German Abwehr officer fall in love - with consequences neither could have foreseen...
I thought loving someone was simple. It isn't. Glorious, yes. Painful, yes. Unforgettable, yes. Simple, no. It took me the war to find out...
Evelyn St. John has been parachuted into France to link up with the Resistance and to work undercover. Paul von Hoch's brief, as a member of German Intelligence, is to track down enemy spies.
When Evelyn and Paul meet and fall in love, their feelings for one another are fierce, but can never be uncomplicated. And when the battle lines shift, and patriotism gives way to deeper truths, they will both face the gravest of challenges.