This is an award-winning and bestselling tale of friendship and courage. Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. When a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France, she is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war. The story begins in 'Verity's' own words, as she writes her account for her captors. Truth or lies? Honour or betrayal? Everything they've ever believed in is put to the test..."A remarkable book." (Daily Mail).
This book. This stupid, brilliant, evil, awful, wonderful, beautiful book. My best friend told me to read it, only telling me that it was "about best friends." So obviously she is evil and awful as well. I can't get it out of my head now. Not just the plot, but also the author's stunning skill in how she laid the story out with its unexpected revelations in the second half, and how she brought her characters to life, and how she perfectly handled something that would have felt emotionally manipulative in a lesser author's hand.
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