Catherine Bruton

8 books · Catherine Bruton

August 1914, German Occupied France. Twelve-year-old Amelie stumbles across an injured British soldier in the woods and throughout the first winter of the Great War her family keep him hidden from the enemy. But the presence of Captain James Winters starts to create suspicion and resentment in the village when he embarks upon an affair with Amelie's sister and attracts the attention of another local girl, Magali Legrange.