Priscilla

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<p><b>The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.</b></p><p>For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirées and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat.</p><p>But the arrival of the Nazi tanks signalled the end of life as a Vicomtesse, and the beginning of a precarious existence under German Occupation.</p><p>Over half a century later, her nephew, Nicholas Shakespeare, found a box of Priscilla's notebooks and journals. He began investigating the rumours that she had escaped a prisoner-of-war camp and fought for the Resistance - and he finally unearthed the truth behind suspicions of disreputable love affairs and far darker secrets.</p>

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<b>Nicholas Shakespeare</b>was born in Worcester in 1957 and grew up in the Far East and Latin America. He is a prize-winning novelist and biographer and<i>Priscilla</i>draws on his talents in both genres.

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