Jersey, 1943. When the German Army invades the tranquil island, librarian Grace La Motée is determined to keep her services running.
Ordered to destroy books which threaten the Nazi regime, she refuses, instead hiding them away and fighting back by forming a book club: a lifeline to help islanders escape the terror of war, one chapter at a time.
But soon Grace’s quiet acts of bravery become even more perilous.
She’s harbouring dangerous secrets — ones that put her life in danger — and when tensions turn to violence, she is forced to face the true, terrible cost of resistance.
The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson is published in paperback on 29 August, 2024.
Kate has written about the real people whose stories inspired her novel in Uncovering Jersey’s wartime resistance.
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