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  • Location: Paris, Nice, French Riviera

In Darkess Look for Stars

In Darkess Look for Stars

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1940s: The city of Paris is growing more dangerous by the day

  • ISBN: B0849VMQDN
  • Genre: Historical

What you need to know before your trail

Paris, 1941: Going against her mother’s orders, spirited Maggie devotes herself to the Resistance. Her life is a whirlwind of forged passports and secret midnight runs, helping Jews escape. Much to her high-society mother’s disproval, she has fallen in love with Emil, a Jewish Resistance fighter who is wanted by the Nazis.

The city is growing more dangerous by the day, with signs proclaiming ‘No Jews’ posted everywhere in the maze-like streets, and people dragged away in handcuffs. The forbidden lovers are forced to say goodbye – Emil going underground to escape capture.

Meanwhile, Maggie’s sister Cecilia is hundreds of miles away, where the realities of war are yet to hit the serenity of the South of France. Innocent and shy Cecilia is shocked to the core when Emil turns up, seeking refuge. Her sheltered life turned upside down, Cecilia is thrown into the world of the Resistance, all the while sending coded letters to her sister, who every day awaits news of her fiancé.

But with the Nazis closing in on them, their lives soon hang in the balance. Both sisters must decide where their loyalties lie – and how far they are willing to go to save themselves, and one another.

Travel Guide

Travel in Darkness Look for Stars in Paris Booktrail style

The novel is a work of fiction but the author says it was inspired partly by the men and women of the French Resistance who died fighting the German Occupation.

There are countless Emils and Maggies and Cecilias in the real world who braved the Resistance and the war effort. Some of course, died their lives cruelly cut short by this global conflict.

The author points out that it’s a;most impossible to thinks of the struggles and suffering people went through at a time which is still within the living memory of many.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: In Darkness, Look for Stars

Destination/location: Paris  Author/guide: Clara Benson  Departure Time: 1941

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