The Paris Agent

If you are not quietly sobbing in your bed at 10pm at night, you haven’t read this right.

Kelly Rimmer has once again made me a sobbing mess with this beautifully delicate and strong willed story of two incredibly fierce women fighting for their countries in WWII. Limited training and no guarantees on survival. Based on a combination of different true stories, Rimmer follows Chloe and Fluer as they are deployed as part of the SOE (Special Operations Executive) an underground army that showed resilience and strength by working with resistance forces. The other story revolves around Noah (a former SOE agent) and his daughter Charlotte, set in 1970 as they research the 1940’s to find more information so Noah can be at peace with his time in the war, to be reassured that what he did was courageous and fierce. So he can be comfortable in his later life, understand all that happened.

I don’t want to ruin this book for anyone because I loved it so much, but it is just the perfect story. I was crying big big tears as I was reading about the sacrifice, the loss, the grief, the love, the unknown about their families, these service people are incredible, as is anyone who loved, died and survived this time.

This is another five star read for me from Kelly Rimmer! Out on 11th July, thank you to Hachette for the copy.