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I just read an interesting novel , A Lion in Waiting (Kindle Edition) by H.W. Coyle.
A fast summary: Set at the start of WWII with the British Expeditionary Force retreating toward Dunkirk in 1940. British officer Ian Wylie survives a massacre of prisoners after his unit is captured during its retreat toward Dunkirk to be evacuated. At first, he finds sanctuary on a small farm and assumes the identity of the farm's owner’s sister, Diane Lambert, and accepts an offer to teach at a Catholic girls' school in Normandy. What follows is a close-up look at what the French faced as an occupied country.
I found it fascinating.
charlie
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One of the best
novels I've read anywhere.
Love, Andrea Lena
Thanks
I also heartily recommend her The Legend of Alfhildr, on Kindle. A great great story.
next on my list...
That one is next on my reading list. Just bought it from Amazon for my Kindle.
charlie
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/missing-without-a-trace-cha...
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/832524
HW Coyle has stories here at BCTS under a different name
I read A LION IN WAITING when it was posted here under the name Nancy Cole. Most of her stories have military or historical settings mixed with transgender themes and they're all pretty great. As grim and harrowing as it was her concentration camp story The Other Side of the Wire was one of my favorites- doing justice to one of the greatest evils in human history. She's a hell of a story teller, and though she has left us (she was never really happy here; personality conflicts + such) she was nice enough to leave some of her stories (eg, The General and the Butterfly) behind under her old gnome de plum. As Nancy Cole she used to have many more novels for sale thru Kindle, but some of her best don't seem to be available anywhere. Hopefully she'll publish them in some form or other again someday...
~hugs, Veronica
What borders on stupidity?
Canada and Mexico.
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Wow, thanks, Veronica! Yes, she is a *real* writer
I enjoyed several of her stories. As I recall, she'd post her stories here, and them remove them soon after they were complete.
She's a professional writer, and it really showed.
- io