294pp, hardcover, black cloth, gilt lettered, dust jacket unclipped but has got damp and stuck to book, good readable condition with no markings or annotations, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2005. * the third novel by Widdecombe, this one follows on from 'An Act of Treachery'.

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T�tulo

An Act of Peace: The enthralling sequel to An Act of Treachery

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Fecha de publicaci�n

2005

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0297829580

ISBN 13

9780297829584

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

1st Edition

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Good

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The story of Klaus-Pierre Dessin, the illegitimate son of a young French woman and a high-ranking German soldier, who fall in love in Paris during the Nazi occupation in WWII. His father is killed in the German retreat and his mother is faced with bringing up her young son on her own.
Told in the first person, KP starts in 1989 as the Berlin wall falls and recollects life from the time as a toddler he and his mother took refuge with an aunt in Provence after her Catholic family in Paris had disowned her. The suffering of taunts and bulleying from French children - 'the German brat, the German brat' and the eventual move to KP's German family near Lubeck on the West German side of the West-East German border. There on an estate recovering from war KP learns about life. He is clever, multi-lingual, goes to university in Heidelberg and also in England (Oxford) where he discovers that people are similar regardless of nationality. And he falls in love....

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Tory MP for Maidstone. In John Major's Government she was Home Office Minister under Michael Howard. Shadow Home Secretary 1997-2001. Unmarried and a Roman Catholic convert. Has been writing since at school where she won essay prizes. Now writing third novel.

Find out more at www.annwiddecombe.com

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