About the Book: Miss Carters War
It is 1948 and Britain is struggling to recover from the Second World War. Half
French, half English, Marguerite Carter, young and beautiful, has lost her
parents and survived a terrifying war, working for the SOE behind enemy lines.
Leaving her partisan lover she returns to England to be one of the first women
to receive a degree from the University of Cambridge. Now she pins back her
unruly auburn curls, draws a pencil seam up her legs, ties the laces on her
sensible black shoes, belts her grey gabardine mac and sets out towards her
future as an English