![]() ![]() ![]() Kate Ferdinand sobs as she reads Mother's Day card for Rebecca Ellison's graveĬarefully weighing up the risks, Odette listened as the captain explained how mentally and physically demanding living a double life would be. ![]() They were interested in her language skills, but were searching for bilingual female spies. She was told not to tell anyone but to head to a secret meeting.Īssuming she would be asked to translate something (she was fluent in both English and French) she headed to the headquarters and was shocked by what they asked. One day a letter arrived for her from the Special Operations Executive. Her husband Roy was deployed and she and the girls fled from London to Somerset. Odette went on to marry and have three daughters, and sure enough, true to her grandfather’s prediction, in 1939 war was declared. ‘In 20-odd years’ time, there will be another war and it will be your duty to do as your father did.’ Odette never forgot what her grandfather said to her one Sunday. ![]() Her father had died in the Battle of Verdun in the First World War and every Sunday, she and her brother Louis would be taken to lay flowers at his grave in London. Thirty-year-old Odette hadn’t had an ordinary life. Roger Moore's family back new writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Bond success ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |