Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

This is the astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures and misadventures in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. For Priscilla pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors soirees and heartbreak and eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat. But the arrival of the Nazi tanks signalled the end of life as a Vicomtesse and the beginning of a precarious existence under German Occupation. Over half a century later her nephew Nicholas Shakespeare found a box of Priscilla's notebooks and journals. He began investigating the rumours that she had escaped a prisoner-of-war camp and fought for the Resistance - and he finally unearthed the truth behind suspicions of disreputable love affairs and far darker secrets. 'Haunting'. (The Times). 'Extraordinary'. (Observer). 'Vivid'. (Mail on Sunday). 'Gripping'. (New York Times).