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Amanda Lees on Paris at First Light

The novelist discusses the Resistance, the role of women during the war, and her new novel.

Suzanne Goldring

Amanda Lees, congratulations on Paris at First Light. This is the 2nd part, coming hot on the heels of The Silence Before Dawn. The French Resistance during the Nazi occupation is an extraordinary story – why did you want to write about it? I wanted to write in...

Paris & Her Secrets

There are plenty of sites that reveal Parisian secrets from the past.

Amanda Lees

As much as any of the characters in the book, Paris has her own story to tell. During WW2, her citizens suffered enormously under German occupation, with food being severely restricted and even the leather for their shoes reserved for German troops so they had to make...