An Act of Peace: The enthralling sequel to An Act of Treachery - Hardcover

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Tory MP for Maidstone. In John Major's Government she was Home Office Minister under Michael Howard. Shadow Home Secretary 1997-2001. Unmarried and a Roman Catholic convert. Has been writing since at school where she won essay prizes. Now writing third novel.

Find out more at www.annwiddecombe.com

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THE CLEMATIS TREE 'You want to go on reading, you want to know what happens.' Ruth Rendell, The Sunday Times 'She has crafted a compelling story about the way a family copes with catastrophe.' Bel Mooney, The Times 'A delight, a very polished read.' Peter Stanford, Catholic Herald 'A well-constructed novel . . . It tackles the issues you'd expect, particularly euthanasia, but in a humane, thoughtful and undidactic manner, offering no easy answers.' Harpers and Queen AN ACT OF TREACHERY 'A tale of illicit love, hate, and loss in Occupied France . . . confirming [Widdecombe] as an eloquent story-teller.' Glasgow Herald 'A gripping read.' Sunday Express ''Widdecombe is to be applauded for the range of her ambition within this book: the admirably large cast of characters is well handled; their dilemmas are believable and the narrative makes for compulsive reading.' The Times

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'A compelling story about the way a family copes with catastrophe',wrote Bel Mooney in The Times of Ann Widdecombe's fiction debut, The Clematis Tree Here, in An Act of Peace, Ann Widdecombe again demonstrates why, as Ruth Rendell, in the Sunday Times, wrote of her earlier work, 'You want to go on reading, you want to know what happens.' Klaus-Pierre is the love-child of a young Frenchwoman and a senior, married German officer serving with the forces occupying Paris. His father is killed before he is born and his mother is rejected by her family of patriots and resistance workers. Sent to live with a maiden aunt in Provence, Klaus-Pierre is surrounded by hostility until his father's family learns of his existence and takes him to Germany. Here he is loved and happy but, as he grows up in a Europe where old enemies are learning to cooperate, he tries to make his own Act of Peace with his French relatives. The result is a horrifying confrontation between the two families when they meet by accident in Provence. Meanwhile, Klaus-Pierre is involved in a further quest to comes to terms with his roots, as he tries to find out what kind of man his father really was. The narrative of An Act of Peace moves across a 'peace-torn' Europe from Lubeck to Provence, from Heidelberg to Oxford, from London to Paris. Full of insights into individual character An Act of Peace follows on from Ann Widdecombe's second novel, An Act Of Treachery, but may be read as an enthralling stand-alone novel of how an individual overcomes national prejudice to experience a life of fulfillment.