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From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own.

In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. Here she will come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place during Europe's darkest years, and will confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days. Vividly rendered, tremendously moving, and with a narrative sweep and power reminiscent of his novel Birdsong, Charlotte Gray confirms Sebastian Faulks as one of the finest novelists working today.

"Faulks's last novel, BIRDSONG..., was also about a combination of love and war, but CHARLOTTE GRAY seems to have been written by two people. One is planning a two-part television movie with passionate love scenes, filmed partly in picturesque rural France. The other has something serious to say about the human condition: about changing perceptions of morality, existential solitude, the dehumanizing effects of war, the nature of romantic love. But these reflections don't always match the characters with whom they've been paired."

Anita Gates, New York Times Book Review, 02/14/1999

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