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'A woman writes a story for her married lover. Something she always thought of as a fairy tale. A fairy tale with a dark side, like the best of fairy tales...' Occupied France, 1943. In Paris, the city is emblazoned with the black, red and white swastika flags of the German invading forces. It is a city that has been cowed into a shameful submission, a city of whispers and secrets and illegal posters pasted up all around the city that call on people to rise up and fight, which are torn down the next day. A woman working for a prestigious publishing house, in this city under German control, starts an illicit affair with the distinguished publisher, a married man. He introduces her to the Resistance, and she comes to have a taste for the clandestine life, finding a secret thrill in her brushes with danger and the drug of secrecy, danger and freedom. She has never felt more alive.After the war, to prove something to her lover, the woman writes...