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May 15, 2024 · Better Reading Preview: Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat. A riveting story of redemption and retribution in a unique wartime setting by the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Girl from the Channel Islands. Jersey 1945.
May 15, 2024 · Born in Jersey, Channel Islands, Jenny Lecoat's parents were raised under German Occupation, and both families were involved in resistance activity. Lecoat moved to England aged 18, where following a drama degree, she spent a decade on the alternative comedy circuit as a feminist stand-up.
May 15, 2024 · Jenny Lecoat. Born in Jersey, Channel Islands, Jenny Lecoat's parents were raised under German Occupation, and both families were involved in resistance activity. Lecoat moved to England aged 18, where following a drama degree, she spent a decade on the alternative comedy circuit as a feminist stand-up.
4 days ago · By Jenny Lecoat. A Jewish woman falls in love with a German soldier amid the Nazi occupation of Jersey. Fiction, Historical Fiction. Beyond The Book March 17, 2021.
May 8, 2024 · Australian Recent Release: The Viennese Girl by Jenny Lecoat. Lecoat weaves a riveting tale, inspired by the true story of Hedy Bercu, a young Jewish girl who fled to the island of Jersey seeking refuge from Nazi occupied Vienna, only to become trapped on the island during the German occupation.
May 8, 2024 · Tasmanian Recent Release: The Unearthed by Lenny Bartulin When human remains are discovered in the wilds of the Tasmanian west coast, the dark past comes into the light of the present in this deeply moving novel from the author of Fortune. There are animals in the camouflage of undergrowth; they forage this final, fading […]
May 20, 2024 · A recent wartime novel set on Jersey is The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat (2020, also published as Hedy’s War). This is a retelling of the real life story of Hedy Bercu, a Jewish woman who faked her own death and was sheltered at great risk to herself by Dorothea le Brocq.
