Code Name Verity is a very strong contender for my favorite book of the year. It tells the story of two young women and their powerful, exhilarating friendship in the midst of WWII. One girl works as a pilot (code name: Kittyhawk) and the other as a wireless operator (code name: Verity). A disastrous night mission ends in a crash landing in Nazi-occupied France. Verity is picked up by the local branch of the Gestapo almost immediately, and before the book has even started has broken under the interrogation. The novel is her written account, half confession, half memoir, of her work in the war effort and her friendship with Maddie, aka Kittyhawk. The audio version of this book is amazing. It's read by two talented voice actors, Morven Christie and Lucy Gaskell, who each take on one of the girl's parts. This book had me crying two or three times near the end. It's a very intense story and it doesn't exactly end happily. But the story is exquisitely well told, and I highly recommend it.