The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (unabridged audiobook)
The wonderful new novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room is both a gripping adventure story and a moving meditation on patriotism, betrayal and the limits of love. Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, half French, half British, naive yet too...
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The wonderful new novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room is both a gripping adventure story and a moving meditation on patriotism, betrayal and the limits of love. Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent French - will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into south-west France with an urgent mission...
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781471203084 (1471203085)
ASIN: 1471203085
Publish date: 2012-08-03
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Minutes: 10
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
France
Published in the U.S. under the title “Trapeze”This novel is a fascinating blend of fact and fiction, the story of Marian Sutro, an ordinary young woman, who barely out of school did the most extraordinary things in 1943 for the war effort.Recruited by the SOE (Special Operation Executive) at the ag...
Set during World War Two, The Girl Who Fell From The Sky is the story of Marian Sutro, a young Anglo-French woman parachuted into occupied France by the Special Operations Executive to help run an espionage network in the south west.With its focus on identity and loyalty, it's an intelligent, well-c...
Based on the true story of a group of young women who were recruited in Britain, during WWII, to serve in the French Division of The Special Operations Executive, the book is filled with historic facts about their training, innocence and bravery in the face of enormous danger. The SOE trained these ...
I don't typically enjoy WWII stories, but this was a masterful piece of historical fiction. Easy to get involved with the protagonist's story and thrilling plot, even when nothing is actually happening.
Marian Sutro is a 19 year old girl in war-torn London who wants to do something with her life, make a difference in the was effort. A she's bilingual, she's recruited to become an operative in France. The novel takes us through her training, her deployment, and her various missions while in France.W...
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