Villa Mimosa by the late Irish author Jerrard Tickell, whose WWII comedy novel Appointment with Venus has been twice adapted to film, is his standalone historical literary fiction heist thriller, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press.
This was originally published in 1960 by Hodder & Stoughton.
The story is a literary novel with satirical elements, framed as a heist thriller, taking place in occupied France during World War II, and is centred around a daring British military operation to rescue a group of eccentric civilians from an area previously thought safely evacuated.
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Description
When Major Charles Addison — alias Charles Bertin, watch-maker — rode his bicycle along a poplar-lined road in occupied France in 1944, he saw like signal flags a string of feminine undergarments on a clothes line.
The area, by order of Field-Marshal Rommel, was one from which all civilians had in theory been evacuated.
The house which flew these revealing pennants was the Villa Mimosa, an establishment whose existence was to arouse the greatest interest among the Chiefs of Staff in London.
A daring and impudent plan was devised and given the appropriate name of ‘Operation Sabine’.
In his true identity, Major Addison returned dangerously to the Villa to snatch away the ladies and their regular visitors and convey them to England.
The contribution made to final victory by Lucille, Elsa, Magda, Monique and Golden Mouse was greater than any of them knew.
For, under the discreet roof of the Villa Mimosa, deadly political conspiracy had long been combined with wine, women and song.
Villa Mimosa is a breath-taking piece of literary fiction set during the epic struggle that was World War Two.
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