The Children's War

8vo. Pp. [vi], 368. Pictorial wraps. 15,000 copies, first printing.

Author's fourth book. A half-Jewish girl, trapped alone in Vichy France, and a reluctant recruit in Hitler's Youth movement, must each fight for their survival. A coming-of-age novel set in war-torn Europe, and loosely based on the author's own family history. "Richly satisfying and utterly absorbing.... Fascinating and original.... Charlesworth tells the story so artfully that she brings an utterly fresh perspective to bear on familiar psychological territory." –Robert MacNeil, The Washington Post Book World