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An Act of Treachery
[Buy it!] | Widdecombe, Ann | USD 10.18
(Fri Jun 7 10:02:19 2024) | AbebooksUK | The Print Room | ISBN10: 0297645730, ISBN13: 9780297645733, [publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson / Orion Publishing Group, London] Hardcover First Edition First edition, first impression. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLUE INK, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Gina best wishes Ann Widdecombe'. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, small scratch mid spine, corners slightly bruised, some browning to page block. Price clipped, no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 257pp. Catherine Dessin is fifteen 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 create 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.
[Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002] |
