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The award / Danielle Steel.

Steel, Danielle. (Author).

Summary:

Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin to occur. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate. The local German military commandant makes Gaëlle's family estate outside Lyon into his headquarters. Her father and brother are killed by the Germans; her mother fades away into madness. Trusted friends and employees become traitors. And Gaëlle begins a perilous journey with the French resistance, hoping to save lives to make up for the beloved friend she could do nothing to help. Taking terrifying risks, Gaëlle becomes a valuable member of the Resistance, fearlessly delivering Jewish children to safety under the eyes of the Gestapo and their French collaborators. Then she is suddenly approached by the German commandant with an astonishing, dangerous plan to asve part of France's artistic heritage. Conducted in secret, flawlessly carried out, her missions will mark her for years, when she is falsely accused of collaboration at the end of the war. Orphaned and alone, she begins a new life in Paris, with the ghosts of the past always close at hand. Gaëlle's life will take her from Paris to New York, from a career as a Dior model to marriage and motherhood, unbearable loss, and mature, lasting love. She returns to Paris to run a small museum, honoring victims of the Holocaust. But her label as a collaborator remains, until her granddaughter, a respected political journalist, ensures that her grandmother's brave acts are recognized. Now a grateful nation will finally absolve this remarkable woman and honor her as the war hero she was.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781101883853 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: 319 pages : 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 2016.
Subject: World War 2 > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction.
Male-Female Romance > Fiction
Marriage > Fiction
Secrets > Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > France > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female > Fiction.
Malicious accusation > Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) > Fiction.
Art, French > Fiction.
France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 14 of 15 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Vanderhoof Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 15 total copies.
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