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The schoolteacher of Saint-Michel / Sarah Steele.

The schoolteacher of Saint-Michel / Sarah Steele.
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ISBN 9781472284891 (paperback)
Name Steele, Sarah author.
Title The schoolteacher of Saint-Michel / Sarah Steele.
Published London : Headline Review, 2021.
©2021
Description 407 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes "In a time of war, she taught them hope..." --Front cover.
Includes author's note and reading group questions.
Summary France, 1942. At the end of the day, the schoolteacher releases her pupils. She checks they have their identity passes, and warns them not to stop until the German guards have let them through the barrier that separates occupied France from Free France. As the little ones fly across the border and into their mothers' arms, she breathes a sigh of relief. No one is safe now. Not even the children. Berkshire, present day. A letter left to her by her beloved late grandmother Gigi takes Hannah Stone on a journey deep into the heart of the Dordogne landscape. As she begins to unravel a forgotten history of wartime bravery and sacrifice, she discovers the heartrending secret that binds her grandmother to a village schoolteacher, the remarkable Lucie Laval...
Subjects Grandmothers -- Fiction
Granddaughters -- Fiction
Courage -- Fiction
Secrecy -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction
Berkshire (England) -- Fiction
Genre War fiction
Historical fiction
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