Author: judithelittle

“Impeccably researched” (Entertainment Weekly): Abandoned by their parents and raised in a convent, sisters Antoinette and Coco Chanel set out across France to prove their worth. They achieve glamour and success — but World War I changes everything… “Triumphant yet heartbreaking” (New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper).

May 1940. Hitler invades France, a move that threatens all of Europe, and three lives intersect at Wickwythe Hall, an opulent estate in the English countryside—a beautiful French refugee, a take-charge American heiress, and a charming champagne vendeur with ties to Roosevelt and Churchill, who isn’t what he seems. There, secrets and unexpected liaisons unfold, until a shocking tragedy in a far … off Algerian port binds them forever…Wickwythe Hall is inspired by actual people, places and events, including Operation Catapult, a sea action in which Churchill launched a bloody attack on the French fleet to keep the powerful ships…