{"product_id":"9781867206545_dancing-with-the-enemy","title":"Dancing with the Enemy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Collaborator\u003c\/em\u003e comes a compelling story of betrayal, collusion, revenge, and redemption set in German-occupied Jersey during World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJune 1940. `It was a perfect June evening that began with hope and ended in despair.' So begins the journal of Hugh Jackson, a Jersey doctor, whose idyllic world is shattered when  Britain abandons the Channel Islands which are invaded by the Germans. Forced to choose between conflicting loyalties, he sends his pregnant wife to England, believing their separation will be brief. It's a fateful decision that will affect every aspect of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMay 1942. Young Tom Gaskell fumes whenever he sees the hated swastika flying from Fort Regent. Humiliated by Jersey's surrender and ashamed of his mother's fraternisation with the occupiers, Tom forms an audacious plan, not suspecting that it will result in guilt and tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApril 2019. Sydney doctor Xanthe Maxwell, traumatised by the suicide of her colleague and burnt out by the relentless pressure of her hospital work, travels to St Helier so she can figure out what to do with her life. But when she finds Hugh Jackson's World War II journal, she is plunged into a violent world of oppression and collusion, but also of passion and resistance. As she reads, she is mystified by her growing sense of connection to the past. Her deepening relationship with academic Daniel Miller helps her understand Jersey's wartime past and determine her own future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time this novel reaches its moving climax, the connection between Tom, Xanthe and Hugh Jackson has been revealed in a way none of them could possibly have imagined. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diane Armstrong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46898224595093,"sku":"9781867206545","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781867206545_1321f0b7-02b6-4e88-9f19-53b4159a8110.jpg?v=1776888207","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781867206545_dancing-with-the-enemy","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}