Wartime secrets emerge 50 years later, as a French woman in late middle age reflects on her childhood during the occupation. Harris is a superb storyteller with a gift for lush evocative description of place and sharp characterisation. This is a quiet but gripping book, full of surprises and warmly recommended to all readers.
For a moment I stared at him, unable to move. My face was rigid. Too late I remembered Cassis's stories about the cruely of the Germans. He was watching still; I wondered what the Germans did with thieves. Then he winked at me.
