Synopsis from Amazon.co.uk:-
'Sebastian Faulks established his authority as a storyteller with his best-selling Birdsong. His next book, Charlotte Gray, a haunting story of love and war set in London and occupied France in 1942-3, is loosely a sequel. Charlotte is a highly educated young Scottish woman who falls passionately in love with an airman, Peter Gregory, emotionally scarred by his many close brushes with death. When he disappears on a mission to France, she follows him as a British secret courier, sent over to help support the Resistance. Having failed to find Gregory, she decides to stay on to do what she can for the France she has loved since childhood. She and the reader are drawn ever deeper into the lives of assimilated French Jews-- the children Andre and Jacob whose parents have already been sent to the death camps, and the Levades, father and son. Though ultimately powerless to help, Charlotte nevertheless learns a far deeper understanding of herself and her own family through them.'

Second copy bought from a charity shop for releasing simply because this book is so good.

Replication of the journal entry I made for another copy of this book:-
'Anyway, it's taken me a while to get around to this one, mainly because of my expressed fear of Faulks. I'm happy to say that this was not the difficult, obscure, inpenetrable narrative I so feared. I think this is a wonderful novel and I can't really fault it. Fun and fluffy it certainly isn't. Faulks faces up to the horror and inhumanity of the holocaust and has created a very moving novel. Like Toadee I am a hardened reader who found this book pushed a lot of emotional response buttons. There are many issues in this book and Faulkes deals with them in such an honest, 'head on' way that I am filled with admiration. I found the book easy and very satisfying to read and it was a book where I wanted to savour every paragraph. If I have any criticism it would be that the narrative seemed to flag a bit in the middle section but this is more than compensated by the way that Faulkes sustains the narrative interest to the very end of the book. I was very sad to reach the end. Just goes to show how silly it is to be intimidated by certain books/authors. I think I will take this to Meetup and see who I can 'sell' it to, it certainly deserves readers.'

RELEASE NOTES:

got this book at York bookcrossing and looking forward to reading. Will post my thoughts soon!