Author(s): Jerrard Tickell

Military

'I am a very ordinary woman to whom a chance was given to see human beings at their best and at their worst...I completely believe in the potential nobility of the human spirit.'During some of the darkest days of the Second World War, a young Frenchwoman living as a mother and housewife in England left her ordinary life to become a British agent, working covertly in France to aid the Resistance. Entering a murky and deadly world of espionage and double-dealing, she was betrayed to the Germans, only to endure torture by the Gestapo and the hell of the infamous concentration camp of Ravensbruck. Yet she retained a compassion, grace and spiritedness that mystified her captors; and, living to see the liberation of Europe, she kept, in the direst circumstances, her fundamental trust in goodness.Odette" tells the moving and inspirational story of a woman, who, in her courage and her ability to hold on to hope, was far from ordinary.