The Girl from the Channel Islands
Book Feature - The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat
HBL Note: I love that this blog allows me to introduce debut authors to more readers. Left to my own devices, I would probably read the same 12 to 15 authors every year. But because of the network I’ve created around this blog, I’m introduced to hundreds of authors…many of them brand new to the publishing world. It is difficult to break through the noise, but this debut novel by Jenny Lecoat caught my attention for two reasons: 1) It is based on the true story of her own family; 2) Although it is a WWII novel, it has that little twist of something new that I haven’t read about before. Scroll down to read all about The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat.
Book Feature - The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat
Book Feature - The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat
From the publisher:
Debut author Jenny Lecoat’s family has been shadowed by the Nazi Occupation of the Channel Islands since the Germans landed in 1940. Born shortly after Jersey’s liberation, Lecoat’s parents grew up under Nazi rule in the only British Isle to fall in WWII and had two relatives who were sent to concentration camps for sheltering refugees and resisting German rule.
One survived. The other did not.
Now, the screenwriter, feminist, and daughter of the resistance, Jenny Lecoat, has penned a fictionalized story of her family’s experiences in the complex yet little know period of German Occupation of Jersey in THE GIRL FROM THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. Capturing the oppression, terror, and defiance that characterized those years, Hedy Bercu is a Jewish refugee who fled to the Channel Islands to escape the Nazis, only to find herself cornered when the Axis powers invade Jersey.
Her only chance for survival is to make herself invaluable to the Germans by working as a translator, hiding in plain sight with the help of her friends and community – and a sympathetic German officer. But as the war intensifies, rations dwindle, neighbors turn on neighbors, and Hedy's life is in greater danger every day. It will take a definitive, daring act to save her from certain deportation to the concentration camps.
Book Feature - The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat
