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Shortlisted for for the Warwickshire Senior Book Award and the GDST Book of the Year 2022
‘A powerful wartime adventure from the author of The Tzar’s Curious Runaways’ The Bookseller
“A cracking adventure story ” The Spectator, Best Books of the Year
“Hide and Seek brings to vivid life the courage of young people who risked all in the French resistance in the Second World War.Young Amélie Dreyfus is playing hide and seek when the soldiers come for her Jewish family. A much more dangerous game of cat-and-mouse ensues as she half-starves, makes common cause with resistance operatives and eventually outperforms a whole cadre of British spies with her cunning and courage. Who can you trust, Scott-Elliot asks.” The Observer
“An epic, inspiring coming-of-age novel, which thrills from the opening pages and doesn’t lose its grip.” Chris Soul
“A gripping, utterly convincing wartime spy story” LoveReading4Kids
“A thrill a minute wartime adventure about a young girl fighting for the resistance in France.” Just Imagine
“A powerful story of courage in the face of danger” Scope for the Imagination
