The Wartime Book Club - Kate Thompson

The heart-warming and inspiring new novel of love, bravery and resistance in WW2

Jersey, 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island.

Grace La Mottee, the island's only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime.  Instead, she hides the stories away in secret.  Along with her headstrong best friend, postwoman Bea Rose, she wants to fight back.  So she forms the wartime book club: a lifeline, offering fearful islanders the joy and escapism of reading.

But as the occupation drags on, the women's quiet acts of bravery become more perilous - and more important - than ever before.  And, when tensions turn to violence, they are forced to face the true, terrible cost of resistance . . .

Based on astonishing real events, The Wartime Book Club is a love letter to the power of books in the darkest of times - as well as a moving page-turner that brings to life the remarkable, untold story of an island at war.

EVERYONE LOVES THE WARTIME BOOK CLUB:

'One of the very best books I've read in a long time. A gripping, emotional rollercoaster and a true hymn to the power and spirit of novels' Peter James

'A poignant masterpiece that paints a vivid picture of Nazi-occupied life on the isle of Jersey' Madeline Martin

'An unforgettable page-turner' Gill Paul

'This, for me, is historical fiction at its finest - a story of believable, vividly-drawn people trying to live in a world so very different from our own - and I loved it from start to finish' Anna Stuart

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