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Clare's War

It is 1938. Clare Springer, seventeen years old and estranged from her family, is sent to Paris to complete her education. Relishing her new-found freedom, she's having far too good a time to notice the gathering clouds of war. France is invaded and Clare is trapped, though happy to be so when her French lover, Fabien, is reported missing. In her search for him, Clare is sucked into the chaos and suffering around her, for how can she not help this country and people she has come to love? In the process she pays a terrible price.

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