The French house / Jacquie Bloese.
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TextPublisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 358 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781529377323; 9781529377316Subject(s): Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction | Deaf -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Guernsey -- Fiction | Channel Islands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction | Guernsey -- History -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Romance fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: Left profoundly deaf after an accident, Emile is no stranger to isolation - or heartbreak. Now, as Nazi planes loom over Guernsey, he senses life is about to change forever. Trapped in a tense, fearful marriage, Isabelle doesn't know what has become of Emile and the future she hoped for. But when she glimpses him from the window of the French House, their lives collide once more. Lieutenant Schreiber is more comfortable wielding a paintbrush than a pistol. But he has little choice in the role he is forced to play in the occupying forces - or in his own forbidden desires. As their paths entwine, loyalties are blurred and dangerous secrets forged. But on an island under occupation, courage can have deadly consequences...
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Includes reading group questions.
"Freedom worth fighting for. Love worth waiting for'. -- Cover.
Includes bibliographic references.
Left profoundly deaf after an accident, Emile is no stranger to isolation - or heartbreak. Now, as Nazi planes loom over Guernsey, he senses life is about to change forever. Trapped in a tense, fearful marriage, Isabelle doesn't know what has become of Emile and the future she hoped for. But when she glimpses him from the window of the French House, their lives collide once more. Lieutenant Schreiber is more comfortable wielding a paintbrush than a pistol. But he has little choice in the role he is forced to play in the occupying forces - or in his own forbidden desires. As their paths entwine, loyalties are blurred and dangerous secrets forged. But on an island under occupation, courage can have deadly consequences...
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