![]() Slowly, the pair fall in love and begin a dangerous journey by boat, bicycle and train to England. The family’s courage derives from different sources. It is a stroke of unbelievable luck when the family of a French farmer offers them protection. After an amputation, he is nursed back to health by Françoise, the strong willed daughter of a farmer. When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World War, there are two things in his mind: the safety of his crew, and his own badly injured arm. Rather it is a tale of a British Air Force pilot who finds himself injured and relying on the kindness of locals (many of them risking their own lives,) when his plane crashes in Occupied France during World War Two. Anyway, this is a book that isn't to be confused with the delightful Larkin family. Little, Brown, 1944 - Bomber pilots - 268 pages. ![]() He and the daughter of the house are drawn to each other, but it is not time to fall in love. The family of a French farmer risk their lives to protect him. At that point, I had never heard of the novel, though I was aware of the author through his novel The Darling Buds of May and the subsequent television series of the same name that starred a young Catherine Zeta Jones. An English fighter pilot brings his plane down in Occupied France during WWII. ![]() I discovered this fantastic Penguin Modern Classic on the shelves at Dymocks a few months ago. ![]() It feels like a long time has passed since I've written a decent review of an adult novel on here, so what better book to write about than the lovely Fair Stood the Wind for France by H.E. ![]()
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