'Tamarisk: Love and War in France' with Angela Locke

To start our 2025 Words on Wednesday season, Tamarisk: Love and War in France.

With the D-Day 80th Anniversary Looming, join Cumbrian author Angela Locke to discover this spellbinding new novel – a story of survival and the renewal of hope.

In Angela Locke’s latest novel – ‘Tamarisk: Love and War in France’, this accomplished best-selling author and Francophile immerses readers in a story of love, suffering and survival; all set against the background of Special Operations Executive (F Section) and the immediate aftermath of war in Northern France. Using her title’s Tamarisk tree as a metaphor for survival, love must find a way through the ruins of the country and healing must happen for this small group of people who are marked by war.