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Jenny Lecoat is a novelist and screenwriter. Her debut novel The Girl From the Channel Islands was a New York Times bestseller. In the 1980s she was one of the first female stand-ups on the UK Alternative Comedy circuit, before going on to write for magazines and newspapers, and later for television.
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Jenny Lecoat | Projects. Books. Beyond Summerland Coming...
- Earlier Work
In 2019 and 2020 The Jenny Lecoat Short Screenplay Award was...
- Career
Lecoat’s first TV writer’s credit was on the Marks & Gran...
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- What We Know About Bercu
- What Else We Don’T Know
- A Death Badly Staged
- The Romances
Born in 1919, Bercu and her four siblings managed to flee Vienna shortly after the Anschluss, leaving behind parents who they would never see again. Three weeks after Kristallnacht in November 1938, she reached St. Helier, the capital of Jersey, and found work as a maid for a local family. But barely six months later, Winston Churchill’s war cabine...
Bercu’s registration could have proved a death sentence. Three other foreign-born Jewish women, Marianne Grunfeld, Therese Steiner and Auguste Spitz were deported from Guernsey in 1942 and later murdered at Auschwitz. Bercu, however, escaped deportations carried out in 1942 and 1943. The reason why, suggests Carr, is another mystery. “Ultimately, i...
After staying briefly with a Czechoslovak friend, Bercu moved into Weber’s home at 7 West Park Avenue in St. Helier. But Bercu’s attempt to trick the Germans into believing she was dead by staging her own suicide — she left a note and pile of clothes at St Aubin’s beach — did not succeed. In late November, a notice appeared in the local newspaper u...
It isn’t known how Rümmele and Bercu met — although it may well have been through her work as an interpreter — or when the German officer found out she was Jewish. In the book, Lecoat characterizes the early stages of Bercu’s relationship with Rümmele as “a psychotic pendulum of joy and self-hatred.” “I don’t know how that relationship came about, ...
Feb 2, 2021 · Jenny Lecoat was born in the Channel Islands where, only sixteen years earlier, Nazis had deported members of her family to concentration camps for resistance activities. Following an early career in stand-up comedy and writing features for magazines and newspapers, she became a screenwriter.
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Jenny Lecoat: It’s a novel, based on true events, set in the occupied British island of Jersey during WW2. It’s about forbidden love, survival and courage, and hopefully a reminder of where dangerous concepts of racial superiority can lead a society if they’re not stopped.
Apr 28, 2020 · Jenny Lecoat. 3.90. 11,705 ratings1,245 reviews. An extraordinary story of triumph against impossible odds. The year is 1940, and the world is torn apart by war. In June of that year, Hitler’s army captures the Channel Islands—the only part of Great Britain occupied by German forces.
She was nominated for a prestigious Perrier Award in 1986. She also wrote for newspapers and women's magazines (Cosmopolitan, Observer) and presented TV and radio shows, before focusing on screenwriting from sitcom (Birds of a Feather, Sometime Never) to sketch shows (The Catherine Tate Show). Born in Jersey, Channel Islands, Jenny Lecoat's ...
