Product Description

Klaus-Pierre is the love-child of a young Frenchwoman and a senior, married German officer. Klaus-Pierre never knew his father, who was killed before he was born, and his mother was rejected by her family of patriots and resistance workers. Cared for by his German family, Klaus-Pierre is loved and happy - but as he grows up in a Europe where old enemies are learning to cooperate, he tries to make his own 'Act of Peace' with his French relatives. The result is a horrifying confrontation between the two families when they meet accidentally in Provence. Meanwhile, Klaus-Pierre is struggling with another quest to come to terms with his roots, as he tries to find out just what kind of man his father really was...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32131 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Kate Saunders, THE TIMES
'she can spin a good story.... warm in tone and wryly observant.'

Review
'she can spin a good story.... warm in tone and wryly observant.' (Kate Saunders THE TIMES )

'It's a good read with a convincing plot' (Anne Sebba THE JEWISH CHRONICLE )

'Ann Widdecombe's impressive novel...... Widdecombe skilfully and often movingly uses the boy's struggle with his own painful history to throw light on the troubled years between 1945 and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.' (Margaret Walters THE SUNDAY TIMES )

Margaret Walters, THE SUNDAY TIMES
'Ann Widdecombe's impressive novel...... Widdecombe skilfully and often movingly uses the boy's struggle with his own painful history to throw light on the troubled years between 1945 and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.'

Customer Reviews

Ann Widdecombe as an author
A must to purchase both 'An Act of Treachery' and 'An Act of Peace' brilliant reads and highly educational on first and second world wars.