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The Girl from the Channel Islands by Lecoat, Jenny, author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Girl from the Channel Islands about?

451 pages (large print) ; 23 cm Summer 1940: Hedy Bercu watches the skies over Jersey for German planes, convinced that an invasion is imminent. When it finally comes, there is no counterattack from Allied forces. Most islanders and occupying forces settle into an uneasy coexistence, but for Hedy, the situation is perilously different. For Hedy is Jewish. With no means of escape, Hedy works as a translator for the Germans while silently working against them, and forges a tentative friendship with a sympathetic German officer. Soon, her survival will depend not just on her own courage but on the community she has come to cherish and a man who should be her enemy Includes reader's guide "First published in the United Kingdom as Hedy's War by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., in 2020"--Title page verso

Who reads The Girl from the Channel Islands?

Author

Lecoat, Jenny, author

Publisher

Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781432885311

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (3,526 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14