
Priscilla: The Hidden Life Of An Englishwoman In Wartime France (P.s. (Paperback))
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare is a transcendent work of narrative nonfiction in the vein of The Hare with Amber Eyes.When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his late aunt’s personal belongings, he was unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past. The glamorous, mysterious fig...
Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (January 6, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 006229704X
ISBN-13: 978-0062297044
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 1270048
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“I’m developing a real affinity for books where the author starts off investigating a relative in a very minor fashion, and soon finds his/her vision of that individual upended by the messiness of fate. Nicholas Shakespeare’s Priscilla fits nicely in ...”
re he remembered from his childhood was very different from the morally ambiguous young woman who emerged from the trove of love letters, journals and photographs, surrounded by suitors and living the precarious existence of a British citizen in a country controlled by the enemy during World War II.As a young boy, Shakespeare had always believed that his aunt was a member of the Resistance and had been tortured by the Germans. The truth turned out to be far more complicated.Piecing together fragments of his aunt’s remarkable and tragic story, Priscilla is at once a stunning story of detection, a loving portrait of a flawed woman trying to survive in terrible times, and a spellbinding slice of history.
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