TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steele,Sarah
TI  - The schoolteacher of Saint-Michel
SN  - 9781472284891
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Headline Review
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - France
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Grandmothers
KW  - Granddaughters
KW  - Courage
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Berkshire (England)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes author's note and reading group questions
N2  - 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
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