It is also a brilliant evocation of life in Occupied France and, more significantly, a revelation of the apalling price many Frenchmen paid to survive in unoccupied, so-called Free France. Faulks's novel is an examination of lost paradises, politics without belief, the limits of memory, the redemptive power of art and the existence of hope beyond reason. When his plane is lost over France, she contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and to search for him - but then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take control of her life. Working in London, she has a brief but intense love affair with an RAF pilot. Charlotte Gray, a volatile but determined young woman, travels south from Edinburgh. It is 1942, London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the occupying Nazi forces encroach ever closer in a tense waiting game.
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