Why a Booktrail?
WW2, 1970s – A war time story about love lost and letters which lead to the past and then back to the future.
The Confidant
What you need to know before your trail
Paris in 1975
Camille works as a book editor in Paris. She is grieving as her mother has recently died and as she struggles to overcome her grief she starts to receive a series of letters from a man called Louis. In them he recounts details of a love affair of the 1903s and 40s – during the war and at a time when France was overcome with the German occupation.
As the letters come and the story unfolds, a tragic tale unravels and Camille holds the story of something, a secret so big that it comes back from the past right into the present.
Travel Guide
In Paris in 1975 and from 1924 – 1943
Camille Werner a book editor, starts to receive letters and cards of condolence when her mother dies in a car accident. One letter stands out and from her Paris workshop, she is drawn into a tale which goes back many years – a love story during the war – written by a man called Louis who speaks of his love for Annie.
Emotions start building in Paris which cannot be quenched – motherly love, a daughter’s guilt and grief, anger and ultimately obsession as we delve into WW2 and the NAzi occupation of France. This war background is omnipresent as Louis takes us back to the horrors and of finding love amongst it all.
Two time periods and two stories which start to strangely converge. Camille finds out more and more about Louis and Annie’s story which extends over several years from 1924 to towards the end of the war in 1943
The Nazi presence in the city is felt –
“With their metallic language, with its sharp accentuation. the Germans had arrived. Paris was occupied.”
The story in the past has little in the sense of real locations – the village they live in for example is only referred to as – N – but for any keen and discernible booktrailer this shouldn’t be a problem – Camille herself spends hours looking on a map for a town beginning with N about two hours drive from Paris. A booktrailer if ever we saw one.
What she finds at the end of her trail wont be revealed here but it is a booktrail with a real discovery.
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