num_pages: 416
description: Paris 1941: The city is growing more dangerous by the day. Signs proclaiming No Jews are posted everywhere in the maze-like streets and people are dragged away in handcuffs. Maggie Brouillard devotes herself to the Resistance helping Jews escape. Though her life is a whirlwind of forged passports and midnight runs she cannot stop thinking about her fianc who was forced to flee. She prays that the love of her life is safe and sends coded handwritten letters to her dear sister Ccilia. England 1949: Harriet Conway arrives at grand grey-stoned Chaffingham House to start her job as secretary. Home to the Brouillard family since they escaped Paris after the war Chaffinghams opulence has all but disappeared  its curtains faded its carpets worn tragedy hanging in the air Harriet is soon consumed by the mystery surrounding the family. The daughter Ccilia is confined to a wheelchair due to an accident they refuse to discuss and when a strange man turns up asking for Maggie the door is slammed shut on him. Why wont Ccilia look her son in the eye? Why will no one utter Maggies name? Its clear that Chaffingham is shrouded in secrecy the family haunted by a past too shocking to speak of. And when Harriet stumbles upon a crumpled letter she uncovers something that will either repair a lifetime of heartbreak or rip the family apart. An evocative riveting and stirring tale about the tragic realities of war the fine line between loyalty and lies and the power of love even in the darkest of times. Fans of The Nightingale The Letter and All the Light We Cannot See will be spellbound by this magnificent historical novel.
language: English
title: In Darkness, Look for Stars
publisher: Bookouture