On the night of 22nd September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a 29—year—old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOB), was parachuted into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks’ heroine, Charlotte Gray, Pearl had a dual mission: to fight for her beloved, broken France — and to find her lost love, Henri Cornioley, a French soldier on the run from the […]
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