Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2013.
A beautiful and bittersweet love story set in the real village of Oradour-sur-Glane which was cruelly and apparently randomly destroyed during the Second World War. Teenagers Luc and Arianne meet and fall in love. Ari is willing to do anything to stop Luc from joining the French Resistance movement but will it be enough? The absolute romance of first love is touchingly captured and made all the more poignant by the terrible circumstance in which it arises.
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France: February, 1944. Arianne knew Luc as a child, of course she did. Everyone in Samaroux knows each other. But he's been away, and five years really makes a difference to a boy. A young man. As they fall headily into love - first love - their world starts to crumble around them. German forces are closing in, and the village is torn between cooperating to save themselves or putting up resistance and entering unknown danger. Arianne will do anything to make Luc stay. Luc wants to prove he is a man. And Romy, who has loved Arianne all the time that Luc has been away, can see a way of removing his rival, at any cost. How far will they go to protect what they believe in? And what will they do for love?
The Things We Did for Love features in the following genres: Young Adult Fiction, Debut Books of the Month, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, eBooks of the Month, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Recommendations, General Fiction, Fiction
The Things We Did for Love is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Things We Did for Love was written by Natasha Farrant and published by Faber Children's Books an imprint of Faber and Faber
The Things We Did for Love has 227 pages
£6.29
