# In the Company of Angels

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- Book: [In the Company of Angels](https://www.bookquiver.com/n-m-kelby/in-the-company-of-angels) ([In the Company of Angels.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/n-m-kelby/in-the-company-of-angels.md))
- Authors: [N. M Kelby](https://www.bookquiver.com/n-m-kelby)
- Publisher: hachette_books
- ISBN: 978-07-8688-583-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2002-04-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Now available in paperback--" To read Kelby's novel is, in its own words, to 'fall into a dream, a flying dream.' To paraphrase and summarize such fine spun fiction must inevitably be as inadequate as any attempt to retell your most amazing dream the morning after." --New York Times Book Review Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compelling novel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative new voice in fiction. Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgian town, cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers. A shattering of glass, and Marie Claire's village is in rubble. Her grandmother is dead, everyone is dead. She flees to the root cellar of her grandmother's house and waits. . . .