Marc Levy

Needing to make way for two more volumes of Maigret, my hand landed on a fat paperback by Marc Levy called 'Les enfants de la liberté', first noticed at reference 2, near ten years ago.

But before it went for recycling I thought I would notice an episode from the end of the second world war in the book, in which the French were actually glad to see the British, albeit in difficult times, in the form of an RAF squadron - or perhaps a flight - shooting up a train heading north to a concentration camp in Germany from the south of France. But all they knew was that it looked like a goods train, it was the time of the landings in Normandy and the orders were to smash up all goods traffic on the railways, on the grounds that it was mostly war effort related. Luckily, some of the prisoners on the train managed to signal to the lead pilot with a makeshift flag and he broke off the attack.

Then, checking the record I find my original notice of the book back in 2009. And then that I managed to read a second book by the same author, two years later, without connecting the two. Memory failure is not that recent!

I am reminded that Levy is an unusual author, on his third career, from an unusual family. Also a best selling author, with millions upon millions of sales.

My copy of the second book went some weeks ago, but this one is reprieved, as is the DVD of the film of the second, retrieved from the recycling box. Something else will have to give way.

Reference 1: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=cakescript. September, 2011.

Reference 2: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=Soraya+Elglaoui. March, 2009.

Reference 3: Les enfants de la liberté - Marc Levy - 2007. Page 350.

Reference 4: Et si c'était vrai... - Marc Levy - 2012. Oddly, listed on his website under its English name, 'If only if were true'. Loosely adapted into a film called 'Just Like Heaven'.

Reference 5: https://www.marclevy.info/marclevy.