Small Acts of Resistance by Anita Frank (HQ £20, 480pp) There’s a quiet grace to Anita Frank’s First World War story. Set in rural northern France, at the height of the German Occupation, Frank hones in on the fates of grandmother Claudette, her granddaughters Marie and Elodie and a British airman, handsome Henry Farrier, whose plane is downed, stranding him behind enemy lines. With food and firewood scarce, an atmosphere of suspicion and fear overshadowing their remote village and with soldiers surrounding them, Claudette, nonetheless, decides to harbour the fugitive. It’s a dangerous decision, made more perilous when two German...
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