World War II continued

No Place to Lay One's Head by Françoise Frenkel was an account of a Jewish woman's journey around France before and during the French occupation and continues on my theme of war books concerning non-combatants. Frenkel used to own a bookshop in Berlin in the 1930s and that's where the book starts. It's a slightly unusual book as it was "discovered" decades after it was published shortly after the war and the author has long died and her life post-war is largely a mystery. It's doesn't appear to have had much editing and is slightly amateurish as a result, although this is somewhat endearing I suppose. She doesn't mention she is Jewish until halfway through the book, it's obiously not a big thing in her life until it becomes so because of the Nazis. Anyway, she moves around France trying to find a home and is eventually captured before reaching freedom. Frenkel writes in such a low key way about extraordinary events that it almost makes them seem mudane. 5/10