Firmly dedicated to protecting the young children living at the chateau no matter what happens, she still yearns for one thing – to discover her roots, and hopefully meet her birth parents. Marthe had been in denial about the notion of Hitler attacking France, but with the country in the thick of battle and Henri in a PoW camp, she can no longer allow herself the callow comfort of her illusions. Having missed out on a scholarship to study abroad, she has accepted a proposal of marriage from her childhood friend, Henri, and is now stuck in France, living and working at a school located at the Chateau Lafayette, which has been transformed into a place of refuge for orphans and – secretly – Jewish children seeking protection from the Nazis. Marthe Simone is an aspiring artist living in the early 1940s. Stephanie Dray’s talent for historical fiction is well spent on this handsome tale featuring three women who occupy the Chateau Lafayette, the ancestral home which once belong to the famed Marquis and his wife, Adrienne, which goes through many changes over the centuries.
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