I received a free copy of this book from Head of Zeus in exchange for an honest review.

It's the middle of WW2, and the nuns in a convent in the French town of St Croix have to deal with the suffocating effect of the invading Germans, and the Nazi officer who is determined to break them. But this doesn't stop them from helping Jewish children and families in need, In the middle of this, the Mother Superior's niece arrives from England in the disguise of a French villager, and she is ready to help arrange transport of stranded pilots back home.

This was a fantastically-written, evocative and atmospheric novel that will have you feeling all the feelings!I was immediately entranced into this book even though it started off a few years prior to the war with Adelaide discovering the truth about her biological father and traveling to meet her aunt. Adelaide was genuinely so wonderfully British and I loved it about her. She was educated, polite and stoic and her later role in the war proved her to be capable, strong and brave as well.

There were characters in this book (the Germans mostly but also some of the nuns) that had me feeling a level of hatred I didn't know I possessed. I've read some books with terrible characters int eh past but for some reason, this book in particularly had me enraged when certain characters would of things to people or harass the nuns and it drove me nuts but in a good way as it just kept me reading to see what happened.

This book is fiction but there are so many true stories of wartime bravery similar to what happened in the novel that can turly take your breath away. Seeing the danger that Adelaide, Marcel, Sarah and the other sisters put themselves into save others and knowing real people were once in those situations and did those incredible things take your breath away.