# Odette

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- Book: [Odette](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerrard-tickell/odette) ([Odette.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerrard-tickell/odette.md))
- Authors: [Jerrard Tickell](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerrard-tickell)
- Publisher: headline
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7222-060-8
- Published: 2014-04-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'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.