Sebastian Faulks

A young Scottish woman who falls in love with a World War II RAF pilot shortly before his plane is lost over France joins the Resistance movement to find him, only to discover a larger meaning in her new role.

A Novel

Charlotte Gray

Sarah Sammis

Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks is another of the many historical fictions I've been reading this summer. It follows a young British woman's trek through occupied France to find her RAF pilot boy friend after he's shot down during a mission. She is sent on a mission for a fictional "G Section" but chooses to stay after she complete her mission so that she can find the pilot.

Besides following Charlotte's path from receptionist to hero, Faulks includes a few members of the French resistance. They are probably there to round out the novel and perhaps flesh it out but I found these extra scenes distracting. It would have been more suspenseful to not know about Gregory's whereabouts during Charlotte's search.

On a side note, the book won the 1998 Bad Sex Award.

Rose Stanley

Fascinating to read this after reading about Agent Rose (seriously, look her up). 
Every bit as good as Birdsong, with the added pathos of the Holocaust (seriously, NEVER AGAIN). 
Must read The Girl at the Lion d'Or now!

Eve Lynch

Lydia Rose

Kathy Rodger 

Neil L

In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, heads for Occupied France on a dual mission - officially, to run an apparently simple errand for a Brittish special operations groupand unofficially, to search for her lover, an English airman missing in action.

Charlotte Gray A Novel

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