This is the story of Nanette, who was a female spy for the allies during World War II. When the story begins she is in her eighties and lives in a nursing home in Canada. A young man named Joseph, who is the grandson of another spy during the war, is questioning Nanette about the time she spent as a spy in France.
The character of Nanette as an old woman is very charming. She tells salacious stories about her time in the war and embarrasses her young listener several times. She also likes to drink heavily and smoke while she is telling her war stories.
Nanette reveals to Joe that she actually posed as a prostitute who was servicing German soldiers stationed in France. The stories that she tells are erotic but also give us a glimpse into the war as it is nearing its end. The German forces are very nervous about an allied invasion and they are using inexperienced and young soldiers on their front lines.
Nanette also tells Joe the story of his grandmother who was a another spy during World War II and whose code name was "The Queen." The Queen was also stationed in France and while she is there she stays with a female doctor and poses as the Doctor's assistant. The relationship between the Queen and the doctor is intense and takes an unexpected turn.
I enjoyed reading this book CODE NAME NANETTE because of its setting during World War II, but I also liked its exploration of relationships and the strain that this war has on those relationships.
I highly recommend CODE NAME NANETTE if you are a fan of historical fiction set during World War II and if you enjoy some romance mixed into the plot as well.
Joe Parker will never see women, young or old, the same
way
again.
Six months earlier, he would have laughed at the
suggestion
heβd find himself drinking Canadian whisky in Montreal at
one oβclock on a Saturday afternoon, much less doing it
with
a little old woman who used to be a spy and loves telling
erotic stories.
But letters heβs discovered in his grandmotherβs basement
have set him on a quest to uncover his grandfatherβs
identity. They lead to Nanette, a retired British agent
who
served with his grandmother in France during World War II.
Joe finds Nanette in a retirement home, her body
prematurely
ravaged by age and illness. But sheβs still the same
saucy,
irreverent, and unapologetic vixen she was during the war
inside, and sheβs bored to tears.
At first, Nanette toys with Joe, using spy tactics to keep
him off balance. But once she starts revealing secrets,
heβs
mesmerized. The roles Nanette and his grandmother played
behind the scenes in the war are not what Joe expected,
and
the secrets she reveals, not just about the war but also
about what women want and the nature of love, will change
his life forever.
Inspired by true stories from World War II, βCode Name
Nanetteβ is a quirky, sexy, character-driven homage to the
female adventurers and heroines who loved and fought on
the
front lines as passionately as the men, but whose
escapades
and exploits remain largely unknown and unheralded to this
day.
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