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Published September 2013 A collaborative project by: • Alison Miles, Information Services Librarian, CityLibraries Townsville • Jo Beazley, Librarian Oakey ,Toowoomba Regional Libraries • Louise Pieper, Programme Development Librarian, Gold Coast Libraries • Sally Pewhairangi, Strategic Services Development Coordinator, Waimakariri Libraries • Tina Cavanough, Community and Reader Services Librarian, Moreton Bay Region Libraries Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work noncommercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
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Luc Bonet, a lavender farmer, joins the French Resistance when his family is dragged away by Nazi collaborators and their farm in Provence is seized. His life is lived in the shadows, sabotaging German forces. The threat of capture and execution is ever present. Lisette Forestier is on a mission of her own: to work her way into the heart of a senior German officer – and to bring down the Reich in any way she can. What Luc and Lisette hadn’t counted on was meeting each other. War calls for sacrifices though and the pair have a mission to accomplish: to free France and bring the German war machine to its knees. Beyond The Lavender Keeper Reading Map includes 16 heady, velvety and powerful stories of love and betrayal; the triumph of humanity over devastation; and tender tales of hope for the future. Readers will travel from France and London to India, USA and Spain, discovering people just like themselves amidst the horrors of war and the grand pleasures of life. You will see Provence from several angles, and discover more than one lavender field on your reading journey.
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BETRAYAL
Fields of Gold Fiona McIntosh ‘Too late?’ He gave a harsh, mirthless laugh. ‘Too late for what? To fall in love? Well, it’s already too late for me, Iris.’ ‘Jack,’ she said, ‘We can’t do this to Ned. We’re his closest friends.’ G
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The Sadness of the Samurai Victor Del Arbol When Isabel becomes involved in a plot to kill her Fascist husband, she finds herself betrayed by her mysterious lover. The effects of her betrayal play out in a violent struggle for power over three generations. ‘If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I would have the guts to betray my country.’ - E. M. Forster Betrayal is such a dirty word, but it makes for such a captivating story. The characters in these four stories, like Luc, Lisette and Kilian from The Lavender Keeper, experience the personal betrayals of family, friends and lovers while around them nations suffer the treachery of war. Readers will travel from France and London to India, USA and Spain, discovering people just like themselves amidst the horrors of war and the grand pleasures of life.
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All That Is: A Novel James Salter Romantic and haunting, All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. It is a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition. ‘It was love, the furnace into which everything was dropped’. G M T T W
The Secret Keeper Kate Morton The pair of them huddled together and Dolly listened as Vivien said, ‘Go to the railway station and buy yourself a ticket. Get on that train and ride it all the way to the end of the line. Don’t look back.’ G
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WARTIME ROMANCE
Love in the Years of Lunacy Mandy Sayer ‘And as I listen to her saxophone soaring through the speakers, I begin to cherish the good things she left me with - the lyrical melodic lines of her ballads, the wild dips and runs of her twelve-bar blues, the stories she has told me...’ G M T T W
String of Pearls
Who among us can imagine falling in love and planning for the future amidst the tragedy of war? These stories show you the triumph of humanity over devastation. They will take you across continents, as wars do. You’ll meet a US military intelligence agent winning the heart of a British divorcee, a jazz saxophonist with real reasons to blow the blues, another Provençal lavender farmer, and join the search for a lost love. Love in the Years of Lunacy was inspired by the author’s memories of her father’s stories about playing at the Trocadero during the war. Many people will have wartime romance stories of their own. For you, a little Vera Lynn ‘We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day.’
Madge Swindells Captain Simon Johnson, a US military intelligence agent, is billeted with the Conroy family in Mowbray. Despite their reluctance, divorced mother Helen and Simon fall deeply in love, a romance that leads to explosive consequences. G M T T W
The Voyagers Mardi McConnochie This unforgettable and breathtaking story of heartbreak, courage and unwavering love takes you from London after the Blitz to booming Shanghai and fallen Singapore in a novel you won’t be able to put down. G
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Wild Lavender Belinda Alexandra A tale of passion and courage that moves from the back streets of Marseilles to the grand music theatres of Paris, from the countryside of Provence to decadent pre-war Berlin and jazz-age New York. G
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FRANCE
The Girl You Left Behind Jojo Moyes Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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The Lantern Deborah Lawrenson Drawn to a wealthy older man, Eve embarks on a whirlwind romance that soon offers a new life and a new home—Les Genévriers, a charming hamlet amid the fragrant lavender fields of Provence. ‘This sweetness, scooped, like some bright fruit.’ - Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange The essence of France is captured beautifully in this selection, from wine, romance, farming, and gastronomy to village life and the tragedy of war. Join us in exploring this fine country before you follow Luc and Lisette to the Bridestowe Lavender Farm in Tasmania. The Lavender Keeper begins with two lovers in a lavender field in summer, just before sunset on the cusp of war. They are not together long. You will see Provence from several angles, and discover more than one lavender field on your reading journey. Perhaps you’ll be like Peter Mayle and pack up your life to move to Provence. And who would blame you?
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Five Quarters of the Orange Joanne Harris Five Quarters of the Orange is a novel of mothers and daughters of the past and the present, of resisting, and succumbing, and an extraordinary work by a masterful writer.
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A Year in Provence Peter Mayle Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realise a long-cherished dream and move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron, where life is governed by seasons, not by days. G
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FEMME FATALE
Nancy Wake: Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011 Peter FitzSimons In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. G
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Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan ‘My name is Serena Frome and almost forty years ago I was sent on a secret mission for the British security service. Within eighteen months of joining I was sacked, having disgraced myself and ruined my lover.’ ‘But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between… the pursuer and his quarry, whether it’s the writer or the spy.’ - John le Carre Inspired by Nancy Wake, the real life spy who infuriated the Gestapo, The Lavender Keeper’s Lisette is a refreshing female character - independent, and brave in the face of great danger.
Sweet Tooth’s Serena falls into intelligence service in 1972. She mistakenly forgets the first rule of espionage - trust no-one. The reader should heed that advice in regard to the writer, Ian McEwan, who has a few tricks up his sleeve. Jasmine Nights and Code Name Verity return us to the dark times of World War II with one dark and decadant, the latter more brash in its youthfulness.
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Jasmine Nights Julia Gregson Based on true accounts of female entertainers used as spies during World War II, Jasmine Nights is a powerful story of danger, secrets, and love, filled with the colours and sounds of the Middle East’s most beautiful cities. G
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Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein ‘Possibly the only way out for a girl caught red-handed doing dirty work like mine — and I will do anything, anything, to avoid SSHauptsturmführer von Linden interrogating me again.’ G
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Love in the Years of Lunacy Mandy Sayer
The Sadness of the Samurai Victor Del Arbol
Fields of Gold Fiona McIntosh
The Secret Keeper Kate Morton
The Voyagers Mardi McConnochie
String of Pearls Madge Swindells
BETRAYAL Wild Lavender Belinda Alexandra All That Is James Salter
WARTIME ROMANCE I loved The Lavender Keeper and want to read more…
A collaborative project by: • CityLibraries Townsville • Moreton Bay Region Libraries • Toowoomba Regional Libraries • Gold Coast Libraries • Waimakariri Libraries CC BY-NC-SA
FEMME FATALE
Jasmine Nights Julia Gregson
Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein
Nancy Wake: Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011 Peter FitzSimons
The Lantern Deborah Lawrenson
FRANCE A Year in Provence Peter Mayle Five Quarters of the Orange Joanne Harris
The Girl You Left Behind Jojo Moyes