Arlette's Story

Arlette’s Story

One woman’s struggle to fight back against the enemy in order to protect the ones she loves. When Arlette Blaise sees a German plane fly over the family farm in 1940, she’s comforted by the fact that the occupying forces are far away in the north of the country. Surely the war will not reach her family in the idyllic French countryside near to the small town of Oradour-sur-Glane? But then Saul Epstein, a young Jewish man driven from his home by the Nazis, arrives at the farm and Arlette begins to realise that her peaceful existence might be gone for good … Purchase from Amazon UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arlettes-Story-Angela-Barton-ebook/dp/B07D4L74LP/

Author Bio

Angela Barton was born in London and grew up in Nottingham. She is married with three grown up children. Passionate about writing both contemporary and historical fiction, Angela loves researching for her books and is an avid reader. Having signed publishing contracts for three of her completed novels with Ruby Fiction, Angela is excited to be working alongside such a friendly and supportive publishing team. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and Nottingham Writers’ Studio.
Having recently moved to France, Angela (alongside her husband, Paul) is now a lavender farmer, creating products from the oil that’s distilled. Angela says she’s looking forward to spending more time writing in the company of her two spaniels while sitting on her veranda overlooking the breath-taking countryside of Charente.

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My Review

This is an emotional and at times heart-breaking read set in Occupied France during WW2. Living on a farm in the South of France, we met Arlette. a young woman with everything to live for, fervently hoping that the war won't touch them. However, the war is to have devastating consequences for everyone she knows including her friends, her grandmother and the Jewish farmhand. Based on a true story of German atrocities carried out in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, the story is even more horrific when it appears that the village was wrongly singled out and mistaken for another with a similar name. I was moved from the start and the adept story-telling meant that it felt more like a factual account than a work of fiction. Totally absorbing.