The Glovemaker’s War by Katherine Williams

Seventy-three years later and in failing health, she reveals her story to her granddaughter Georgina, whose own journey of self-discovery culminates in her quest to find out if her grandfather is still alive.In The Glovemaker's War, a work of fiction by Katherine Williams, we are made aware of the courage and resilience of a generation of women, whose stories went untold for decades after the end of World War Two.

Pregnant and heartbroken, she returns to England where she does her best to resume her life. My mother was in the same corps, though she was never sent, thank goodness, since the average life expectancy of. I was particularly interested in it, because the actions of the courageous women of the SOE (Special Operations Executive), who were dropped into France to help the French Resistance have always fascinated me. Tragedy strikes again when she believes Luc, the man with whom she has fallen in love, has been killed. 4/5: This debut novel by Katherine Williams bodes well for future books.

But the risks she and Sylvie take result in the discovery of the Resistance network by the Germans. It opens with a ghostly apparition of a woman in 17th-century dress, and soon a journal is discovered hidden in the walls of a Quaker meeting house in Pennsylvania: the journal of a woman who began her life in an isolated farming community in Yorkshire. Based in her uncle's glove making factory in Grenoble she transmits important messages back to England. Disguised as a Parisian glovemaker, she travels to occupied France with her mission partner Sylvie. In 1943, when the SOE recruits bilingual Eve Harrison to work with the French Resistance as a courier, she eagerly accepts the challenge. Heartbreaking and heartwarming, this tale of three generations of women tells of bravery, secrets, lies, family conflict and discovery: the consequences of one courageous woman's decision to join the Special Operations Executive in World War Two.

The Glovemaker’s War by Katherine Williams