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020    9780062297037
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035    241934
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050 00 DC373.M2188 |bS53 2014
100 1  Shakespeare, Nicholas, |d1957- |eauthor.
245 10 Priscilla : |bthe hidden life of an Englishwoman in wartime France / |cNicholas Shakespeare.
250    First U.S. edition.
264  1 New York : |bHarperCollins, |c2014.
264  4  |c©2013
300    423 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references.
520    When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box of documents belonging to his late aunt, Priscilla, he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he remembered from his childhood was very different from the morally ambiguous young woman who emerged from the trove of love letters, photographs, and journals, surrounded by suitors and living the dangerous existence of a British woman in a country controlled by the enemy. He had heard rumors that Priscilla had fought in the Resistance, but the truth turned out to be far more complicated. As he investigated his aunt's life, dark secrets emerged, and Nicholas discovered the answers to the questions over which he'd been puzzling: What caused the breakdown of Priscilla's marriage to a French aristocrat? Why had she been interned in a prisoner-of-war camp, and how had she escaped? And who was the "Otto" with whom she was having a relationship as Paris was liberated? Piecing together fragments of one woman's remarkable and tragic life, Priscilla is at once a stunning story of detection, a loving portrait of a flawed woman trying to survive in terrible times, and a spellbinding slice of history.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Mais, Priscilla, |d1916-1982.
600 10 Shakespeare, Nicholas, |d1957- |xFamily.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xWomen |zFrance.
650  0 Women |zEngland |vBiography.
651  0 France |xHistory |yGerman occupation, 1940-1945.
650  7 Women. |2homoit
650  7 Womyn. |2homoit
655  7 Biographies. |2lcgft
856 42  |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1503/2013388571-b.html
852 0   |bstacks |hDC373.M2188 |iS53 2014