{"product_id":"the-resistance-knitting-club-9781837002566","title":"The Resistance Knitting Club","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspired by the true story of a woman who used knitting patterns to encode intelligence during World War Two.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuernsey, 2010.\u003c\/b\u003e After a stroke, an elderly woman shocks her family by speaking perfect French - a language they never knew she possessed. As her granddaughter unravels seventy years of silence, a hidden wartime story emerges...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eParis, 1941.\u003c\/b\u003e After her brother is declared missing in action at Dunkirk, eighteen-year-old Lenny Gallienne vanishes into Churchill's secret army. In a bookshop on Rue de la Pompe, she poses as a simple shop girl while encoding intelligence from Nazi headquarters into knitting patterns. Each sweater smuggled to prisoners contains flight paths. Each scarf holds radio frequencies. Each mistake means execution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFellow agent, Harry Dennison, is the only person who knows her real name. But when the Gestapo close in, Lenny faces an impossible choice in the Metro tunnels beneath Paris - one that will haunt her family for generations. Because in the resistance, the most dangerous secrets are the ones you keep from those you love most.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Nightingale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Alice Network\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Bookshop in London\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO' Brien, Jenny:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Born in Dublin, Jenny O'Brien moved to Wales and then Guernsey, where she tries to find time to write in between working as a nurse and ferrying around 2 teenagers. In her spare time she can be found frowning at her wonky cakes and even wonkier breads. You'll be pleased to note she won't be entering Bake-Off. She's also an all-year-round sea swimmer.","brand":"Storm Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51986421350674,"sku":"9781837002566","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_374b23b1-08be-49ba-bc74-dc77fd381e73.jpg?v=1769591530","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-resistance-knitting-club-9781837002566","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}