In the Company of Angels : A Novel

Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compellingnovel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative tale.Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgiantown, where she is cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers. A shattering ofglass, and Marie Claire's village is in rubble. Her grandmother is dead-everyoneis dead. She flees to the root cellar of the house and waits.Eventually she is rescued by two nuns working for the Resistance,who take her to their convent near a town where small miracles and strangevisions are simply a part of life.