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Inspired by the true story of a woman who used knitting patterns to encode intelligence during World War Two.
Guernsey, 2010. After a stroke, an elderly woman shocks her family by speaking perfect French – a language they never knew she possessed. As her granddaughter unravels seventy years of silence, a hidden wartime story emerges...
Paris, 1941. After her brother is declared missing in action at Dunkirk, eighteen-year-old Lenny Gallienne vanishes into Churchill’s secret army. In a bookshop on Rue de la Pompe, she poses as a simple shop girl while encoding intelligence from Nazi headquarters into knitting patterns. Each sweater smuggled to prisoners contains flight paths. Each scarf holds radio frequencies. Each mistake means execution.
Fellow agent, Harry Dennison, is the only person who knows her real name. But when the Gestapo close in, Lenny faces an impossible choice in the Metro tunnels beneath Paris – one that will haunt her family for generations. Because in the resistance, the most dangerous secrets are the ones you keep from those you love most.
Perfect for fans of The Nightingale, The Alice Network and The Last Bookshop in London.
Set in Paris in 1941, The Resistance Knitting Club introduces us to Lenny Gallienne, a young woman whose decision to join the Resistance is born out of heartbreak. When her brother is declared missing in action during one of the darkest chapters of the war, Lenny is driven by grief - and determination to do whatever she can to help save lives.
By day, she poses as a shop girl in a bookshop. In secret, however, she uses her extraordinary knitting skills to serve the Resistance, cleverly encoding messages within her patterns and stitches. It’s a unique and fascinating twist on wartime espionage. Though her youth often leads others to underestimate her, Lenny proves that courage and ingenuity are not defined by age. With the Gestapo drawing ever closer, her quiet bravery becomes all the more striking.
There is also a tender romantic thread woven throughout the story. Harry Dennison, a fellow agent and close friend of Lenny’s brother, becomes both an ally and a source of comfort. Their relationship develops naturally amid the danger surrounding them, adding warmth to an otherwise tense and uncertain time. Still, this is wartime France, and nothing, including love, comes without risk.
Heartfelt and poignant, this novel highlights the resilience of ordinary people called to do extraordinary things, even when the cost may be devastating.
I write what I love to read, which is romance and thrillers.
My next release, out February, 2026, is The Resistance Knitting Club, a World War 2 historical novel set in Guernsey, the UK and France. I am currently working on my third WW2 novel.
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