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Priscilla

The Hidden Life Of An Englishwoman In Wartime France

by Nicholas Shakespeare
language: english
Publisher: Vintage Publishing, July of 2014 ‧
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For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat. 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.

Priscilla

The Hidden Life Of An Englishwoman In Wartime France

by Nicholas Shakespeare

Property Description
ISBN: 9780099555667
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Release Date: July of 2014
Language: English
Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 464
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Biographies
EAN: 9780099555667

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nicholas Shakespeare

Nicholas Shakespeare was born in Worcester in 1957 and grew up in the Far East and Latin America. He is the author of *The Vision of Elena Silves*, winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask awards, *The High Flyer*, for which he was named Best Young Author by Granta magazine, and *The Dancer Upstairs*, selected by the American Libraries Association as the best novel of 1997 and adapted into a film of the same title directed by John Malkovich. Prior to this novel, he wrote *In Tasmania*, winner of the 2007 Tasmania Book Prize. He is also the author of an acclaimed biography of Bruce Chatwin (*Bruce Chatwin - Biography*).

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