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A necessary book. . . . Compelling and moving. . . . The literature of wartime France and the Holocaust is by now so vast as to confound the imagination, but when a book as good as this comes along, we are reminded that there is always room for something new. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

This serious and heartfelt book does deliver on its promise of a tale of how female friendship can make the difference between living and dying ... Profound -- Brian Schofield Sunday Times A harrowing but also uplifting shared story of friendship, courage and endurance Independent A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope. They risked their lives to defeat Fascism, by printing subversive literature, hiding Jewish friends or, in the case of one girl, simply insulting a French youth because he had decided to co-operate with the Nazis. The price they paid for their bravery was terrible. A Train in Winter could have been a sad, almost morbid book. In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one -- Kathryn Hughes Mail on Sunday Compassionate, meticulous and compulsively enthralling... This book is essential reading. The litany of names at the end, with their brief biographies (Yolande, Cecile, Poupette, Mitzy, Lucie...) reminds us weeping is not enough. It bears witness - and warns -- Bel Mooney Daily Mail Moorehead tells her appalling story in measured prose that sets off perfectly the reader's growing sense of wonder that such heroism is possible Guardian

This serious and heartfelt book does deliver on its promise of a tale of how female friendship can make the difference between living and dying ...profound -- Brian Schofield Sunday Times A hybrid of history and multiple biography, movingly chronicles the women's ordeal... [it] bears eloquent witness to the moral and material ruin of collaborationist in France -- Ian Thomson Seven It is a harrowing book, not always easy to read, with two dozen or more main characters to follow; but it is fascinating, and important. -- Carole Angier Independent A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope.' 'They risked their lives to defeat Fascism, by printing subversive literature, hiding Jewish friends or, in the case of one girl, simply insulting a French youth because he had decided to co-operate with the Nazis. The price they paid for their bravery was terrible. A Train in Winter could have been a sad, almost morbid book. In Moorhead's expert hands it is a triumphant one. -- Kathryn Hughes Mail on Sunday A remarkable and deeply affecting book Oxford Times

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Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Well known for her work in human rights, she has published a history of the Red Cross and a book about refugees, Human Cargo. Her most recent book, Dancing to the Precipice, a biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, was shorlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2009. Caroline lives in London.

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