The discovery of a skeleton on a Jersey farm leads a local reporter to elderly Belle Legallienne, whose amazing story takes the journalist back seventy years to the German occupation. In a tale that relates the strength of spirit and humour with which the Legallienne family and the entire island population endured the hardships and oppression of Nazi rule, the eighteen year old Belle grows to womanhood and her gripping tale of courage and daring reveals a surprise twist that provides the answer to a decades long murder mystery.
The discovery of a skeleton on a Jersey farm leads a local reporter to elderly Belle Legallienne, whose amazing story takes the journalist back seventy years to the German occupation. In a tale that relates the strength of spirit and humour with which the Legallienne family and the entire island population endured the hardships and oppression of Nazi rule, the eighteen year old Belle grows to womanhood and her gripping tale of courage and daring reveals a surprise twist that provides the answer to a decades long murder mystery.