Waiting for the Violins - Softcover

Saracen, Justine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626390460 ISBN 13: 9781626390461

Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2014

Synopsis

Antonia Forrester, an English nurse, is nearly killed while trying to save soldiers fleeing at Dunkirk. Embittered, she returns to occupied Brussels as a British spy to foment resistance to the Nazis. She works with urban partisans who sabotage deportation efforts and execute collaborators, before résistante leader Sandrine Toussaint accepts her into the Comet Line, an operation to rescue downed Allied pilots. After capture and then escape from a deportation train headed for Auschwitz, the women join the Maquis fighting in the Ardenne Forests. Passion is the glowing ember that warms them amidst the winter carnage until London radio transmits the news they’ve waited for. Huddled in the darkness, they hear the coded message, the long sobs of the violins” signaling that the Allied Invasion is about to begin.

About this title

About the Author:

After years of professing” at universities and writing for international literary journals, and a stint in opera management, Justine Saracen began writing fiction. Saracen lives in Brussels, a short flight or train ride to the great cities she loves to write about. Her favorite non-literary pursuits are parrot pampering, scuba diving, and listening to opera.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1626390460
• ISBN 13: 9781626390461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312