The Seven Oaks Book Club
Our selection for January...
World War II has just ended, and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Cont- rol Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes. Somewhat aimless, bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, thirtysomething Edith Graham applies for a job with the Commission - but she is also recruited by her cousin, Leo, who is in the Secret Service. To them, Edith is perfect spy material...single, ordinary-looking, with a college degree in German. Intrigued by the challenge, Edith heads to Germany armed with a convincing cover story: she's an
The Seven Oaks Book Club meets each month to discuss books on a reading list which is created by mutual consent of the Book Club members. All mem- bers of SOCC are invited to attend. Our next meeting is Wednesday, January 24th at 11:30am. Please email Cynthia Bailey at cbailey664@gmail.com
unassuming Education Officer sent to help resurrect German schools. To send information back to her Secret Service handlers in London, Edith has crafted the perfect alter ego, cookbook author Stella Snelling, who writes a popular magazine cookery column. She embeds crucial intelligence wit- hin the recipes she collects. But occupied Germany is awash with other spies, collaborators, and opportunists, and as she's pulled into their world, Edith soon discovers that no one is what they seem to be.
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