Untitled Kelly Rimmer

Twenty-five years after the end of the war, ageing British SOE operative Marcel Augustin is reflecting on the agent who saved his life when a mission went wrong during his perilous, exhilarating years in occupied France. He never knew her real name, nor whether she survived the war. His daughter Charlotte begins a search for answers that resurrects the unrest from that period of his life.What follows is the story of Eloise, Josie and Virginia, three otherwise ordinary, average women whose lives intersect in 1943 when they're called up by the SOE for deployment in France. Taking enormous risks to support the Allied troops with very little information or resources, the three women have no idea they're at the mercy of a double agent within their ranks who's causing chaos and whose efforts will affect the outcome of their lives.As Charlotte's search for answers continues, new suspicions are raised about the identity of the double agent, and more mysteries are unearthed about the fates of Eloise, Josie and Virginia during those last dying days of the war.From the bestselling Australian author of The Warsaw Orphan, this emotionally compelling novel is based on the real-life WWII agent Violette Szabo, whose incredible life story has never before been brought to readers.'Once again, Kelly Rimmer has turned my emotions upside down. With every book of hers I read, I become a more thoughtful and empathetic person' SALLY HEPWORTH'Rimmer is a master at finding a little-known part of a huge topic like World War II and exploring it through fascinating fiction' Herald Sun