'A compelling story'

Diana 'Steve' Escott-Stevens knows what she is getting herself into. For 12 months she has fed and looked after agents preparing for a mission in France. She knows that only half of them will come back. But she is young, brave and moreover speaks fluent French. When she applies to become an agent for the Special Operations Executive she is readily accepted and sent off for training to prepare her for the field. The training is demanding; sabotage, codes, hand-to-hand combat, parachute jumps. But it is only too quickly that she finds herself in a Lysander flying to France, where any mistake could mean capture, torture or death, for her and others.

Diana 'Steve' Escott-Stevens knows what she is getting herself into. For 12 months she has fed and looked after agents preparing for a mission in France. She knows that only half of them will come back. But she is young, brave and moreover speaks fluent French. When she applies to become an agent for the Special Operations Executive she is readily accepted and sent off for training to prepare her for the field. The training is demanding; sabotage, codes, hand-to-hand combat, parachute jumps. But it is only too quickly that she finds herself in a Lysander flying to France, where any mistake could mean capture, torture or death, for her and others.

Hilary Green is a trained actress and spent many years teaching drama and running a youth theatre company. She has also written scripts for the BBC Schools Radio History programmes and won the Kythira prize for a short story. Hilary now lives in the Wirral and is a full-time writer.

2008-04-22 Never Say Goodbye

"Carve Her Name In Pride." Rehashed.

When I initally read this follow up from "We'll meet again" I thought it was a good story.The the other day, I watched the film, "Carve Her Name In Pride."A true story about a woman who was given the George Cross for bravery during the war, after becoming a secret service agent.I couldn't believe that they were so simiular ! Even parts of the film I felt she had copied.

The story only became different coming to the end. Shame really.