This book is the extraordinary untold story of a heroine who parachuted into occupied France in 1944, spied for Britain, defied the Nazis and never told a soul till the day her sons surfing the internet found out about their mother's exceptional achievements and asked her to write her story.
Pipa Latour was one of the last female special operations agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WW11
Pipa was only 23 years when she was trained by the British and sent to France posing as a 14-year-old selling soap to help her grandparents survive. Her cover story enabled her to travel freely on her bicycle selling soap to German soldiers and sending information back to England via code.
This book tells how her life was: rough, foraging for food and sleeping in the woods….and being in constant danger. What an astonishing life of bravery, if she been discovered, she would have been shot instantly.
She made it out and ended up in New Zealand and before she died last year at age 102, she told her story to Jude Dobson, the co-author.
Being told in the first-person narrative makes the reading personal. The tempo is very active and visual. It is easy to stay tune and in step with Pipa. What a brave young woman she was. Following her was quite a trip and a scary one many times over.
Pipa’s memoir is well-said, interesting and captivating.
Bravo for bringing this extraordinary person to life and giving us her amazing story.
My thanks to St. Martin’s Press for this ARC which I received via Netgalley
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