She Walked In Alone

Lyon, France. Summer, 1943. A pregnant schoolteacher walks alone into Gestapo headquarters. She is thirty-one years old. She is five months pregnant. She is carrying a lie so perfectly constructed that even Klaus Barbie - the Butcher of Lyon - believes it. She has already organised the rescue. Sixty years later, Melbourne journalist Della Marsh sits across from Lucie and Raymond Aubrac - now in their nineties, still together, still exact - and begins to understand what it actually cost. She Walked In Alone is a novel about resistance as a daily practice.
About the occupied city where every café felt watched and every street corner carried suspicion. About what ordinary people become when history demands the extraordinary of them. Based on documented historical events. 'She was not reckless. She understood exactly how dangerous the world was. She simply refused to surrender