About this book
<b>Inspired by the true story of a woman who used knitting patterns to encode intelligence during World War Two.</b><br /><br /><b>Guernsey, 2010.</b> After a stroke, an elderly woman shocks her family by speaking perfect French – a language they never knew she possessed. As her granddaughter unravels seventy years of silence, a hidden wartime story emerges...<br /><br /><b>Paris, 1941.</b> After her brother is declared missing in action at Dunkirk, eighteen-year-old Lenny Gallienne vanishes into Churchill’s secret army. In a bookshop on Rue de la Pompe, she poses as a simple shop girl while encoding intelligence from Nazi headquarters into knitting patterns. Each sweater smuggled to prisoners contains flight paths. Each scarf holds radio frequencies. Each mistake means execution.<br /><br />Fellow agent, Harry Dennison, is the only person who knows her real name. But when the Gestapo close in, Lenny faces an impossible choice in the Metro tunnels beneath Paris – one that will haunt her family for generations. Because in the resistance, the most dangerous secrets are the ones you keep from those you love most.<br /><br /><b>Perfect for fans of <i>The Nightingale</i>, <i>The Alice Network</i> and <i>The Last Bookshop in London</i>.</b>