Daughter of Catalonia [electronic resource]
MacKenzie, Jane2014
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'The war was a complicated time, Mademoiselle. Not everything is easy to discover.' In war-torn France, charismatic Spaniard Luis elopes with high-born Elise from Paris and takes her to live in a small village in Catalonia. Little do they know that war will rip them apart, sending Elise into unhappy exile in England, and Luis to his death in the Resistance. Many years later their daughter Madeleine returns to France to seek out her roots and the truth of her parents' story. But her arrival in the Catalan village of her childhood unleashes more than she had bargained for, as Madeleine confronts the secrets of war and learns the shocking truth behind her father's death. And as her own love story begins, she must come to terms with her past, and learn to forgive and to believe in the legacy of love her parents left behind.
Main title:
Daughter of Catalonia [electronic resource] / Jane MacKenzie
Author:
MacKenzie, Jane, Author
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Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Allison & Busby, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Jane MacKenzie has always had a love of languages and speaks fluent French. Much of her adult life has been spent travelling the world, teaching English and French everywhere from the Gambia to Papua New Guinea to Bahrain, and recently working for two years at CERN in Geneva. She now splits her time between her selfbuilt house in Collioure, France and the Highlands of Scotland, where she has made her family home. janemackenzie.co.uk.
ISBN:
9780749015732
Language:
English
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BRN:
357619