![]() ![]() Alone, anxious and restless, Nancy starts by driving an ambulance for the wounded but soon finds her way deeper and deeper into the French Resistance until she emerges as one of its most powerful leaders. Truthfully, Lawhon could have stopped Nancy’s story here and left it as one of the most sensual romance novels you’ve ever read.īut there is more to life than romance, as Nancy discovers in 1940 when Henri is drafted to fight the Germans. ![]() ![]() The two marry and make Marseille their home, where Nancy is ready to spend the rest of her life as Henri’s supportive housewife. It isn’t long before she falls in love with a wealthy French industrialist named Henri Fiocca. It’s a career chosen out of necessity rather than a calling, but Nancy is nonetheless very good at it, earning respect from her male colleagues for her bravado and instincts. In 1936 Paris, Nancy, an Aussie expat, cleverly bluffs her way into becoming a freelance journalist at the European branch of the Hearst newspaper group. Ariel Lawhon’s Code Name Hélène is a spellbinding work of historical fiction inspired by the real story of Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, a woman so extraordinary that your first instinct might be to believe she is imaginary, like James Bond. ![]()
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