The French House - Richard & Judy Book Club Pick Winter 2022
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Emile and Isabelle were once engaged and very much in love. In an attempt to find his fortune Emile he went away to Canada writing regularly but Isabelle's parents hid the letters and she went on to marry someone else. After a horrible accident, Emile lost his hearing and returned to Guernsey to find Isabelle is no longer his.
He marries Letty, a pregnant housemaid he feels sorry for, raising her daughter Maude as his own and conceiving their own daughter Stella. They live a good life growing tomatoes until the Nazis occupy Guernsey and destroy everything including his greenhouses.
Now unemployed he finds work as a gardener at The French House where Isabelle is working as a housekeeper. When they finally meet again they find they are both in loveless marriages and although they try to fight their feelings they are still meant to be together.
When Isabelle?s lodger, a German soldier with secrets of his own, finds himself in danger from the authorities, Emile has difficult decisions to make.
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- Contributor: Jacquie Bloese
- Imprint: Hodder Paperback
- ISBN13: 9781529377354
- Number of Pages: 368
- Packaged Dimensions: 128x196x28mm
- Packaged Weight: 260
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Release Date: 2022-12-08
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Jacquie Bloese is a writer of historical book group fiction, originally from the Channel Island of Guernsey. She draws her inspiration from atmospheric locations with intriguing histories, and people - both real and imaginary - whose stories are calling out to be told. Her first novel The French House, set during the German Occupation of Guernsey in the second World War, was a Richard and Judy Winter 2022 book club pick, and a finalist in the Mslexia Novel Award. Her second novel The Golden Hour is inspired by the seaside town of Brighton, where Jacquie currently lives, and tells the stories of three women from different classes who become caught up in the underground world of erotic photography in 1890s Victorian England. Jacquie began her professional life teaching English, in Turkey and Spain, before returning to the UK to work in ELT publishing for a number of publishers, including Scholastic, Oxford University Press and Penguin Random House. She now works freelance as an educational consultant, writer and editor. In her spare time, Jacquie loves reading, walking, socialising, travel, theatre, cinema and daydreaming!
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