Londoner Cora Masson has reinvented herself as Coralie de Lirac, fabricating an aristocratic background to launch herself as a fashionable milliner. When the Nazis invade, the influence of a high-ranking lover, Dietrich, saves her business. But while Coralie retains her position as designer to a style-hungry elite, Paris is approaching its darkest hour.
Faced with the cruel reality of war and love, Coralie must make a difficult choice—protect herself or find the courage to fight for her friends, her freedom and everything she believes in.
My rating : 4 stars
Genre : historic fiction
My thoughts: I love reading books fact or fiction based around the Second World War and this book took me in a direction I had never thought about much before. Cora an English hat maker runs away from her father in London, changes her identity and becomes absorbed in a new world she knows little about in Paris and lives a life she could never have imagined.
It did take me a while to get into but after the first third it picked up pace and I was literally transported back to 1930/40's Paris. I could literally feel the danger that Coralie and her friends and acquaintances faced as well as her passion to do what she believed in despite the concequeces if caught.
The only negative about the story was I know little about Paris I would have liked a little more descriptive prose but other than this it was thoroughly enjoyable.
Read: 22nd September - 24th October 2015
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