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"What a treasure! What a find! Like an especially
beautiful time-travel device, Appointment with Venus took me back to the
Channel Islands during World War II, where I revelled in every character (even
the bovine ones) and every twist of fate that befell them." Annie Barrows,
co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
"Appointment with Venus is one of best books written
to show what might have happened if Britain had been occupied, as much for what
is glossed over and romanticised as included. I strongly recommend a read."
Anne Sebba, New York Times bestselling biographer and author of The
Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, Les Parisiennes and Ethel
Rosenberg.
It is 1940. The world is at war and all that stands between
England and Nazi-occupied Europe is the tiny (fictitious) Channel Island of
Armorel, controlled by the Nazis but still home to loyal villagers, a pacifist
painter ... and a pedigree Guernsey cow
named Venus.
This hugely entertaining wartime classic, published in a
beautiful gift hardback edition, is introduced by Rosa Rankin-Gee, author of
the debut novel The Last Kings of Sark and the bestselling Dreamland
(currently in adaptation as a 6-part TV series for the BBC)
