Inspired by a true story the bestselling author of In Country offers a gorgeous haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past and searching for the people who saved him during World War II After Marshall Stones B- bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in people in the French Resistance helped him escape to safety One of the brave French people who risked their lives for him was a lively girl in Parismdasha girl identified by her blue beret After the war Marshall returned to America raised a family and became a successful airline pilot He tried to forget the war Now in he returns to France and finds himself drawn back in timemdashmemories of the crash the terror of being alone in a foreign country where German soldiers were hunting down fallen Allied aviators the long months of hiding Marshall finds the people who helped him escape from the Nazis and falls in love with the woman who was the girl in the blue beret He also discovers astonishing revelations about the suffering of the people he had known during the war Bobbie Ann Masons novel inspired by her father-in-laws wartime experiences is a beautifully woven story of love war and second chances.
