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The Resistance Knitting Club

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The Resistance Knitting Club

By: Jenny O'Brien
Narrated by: Shelley Atkinson
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Inspired by the true story of a woman who used knitting patterns to encode intelligence during World War Two.

Guernsey, 2010. After a stroke, an elderly woman shocks her family by speaking perfect French—a language they never knew she possessed. As her granddaughter unravels seventy years of silence, a hidden wartime story emerges...

Paris, 1941. After her brother is declared missing in action at Dunkirk, eighteen-year-old Lenny Gallienne vanishes into Churchill’s secret army. In a bookshop on Rue de la Pompe, she poses as a simple shop girl while encoding intelligence from Nazi headquarters into knitting patterns. Each sweater smuggled to prisoners contains flight paths. Each scarf holds radio frequencies. Each mistake means execution.

Fellow agent, Harry Dennison, is the only person who knows her real name. But when the Gestapo close in, Lenny faces an impossible choice in the Metro tunnels beneath Paris—one that will haunt her family for generations. Because in the resistance, the most dangerous secrets are the ones you keep from those you love most.

Perfect for fans of The Nightingale, The Alice Network and The Last Bookshop in London.

©2026 Jenny O'Brien (P)2026 Storm Publishing 20th Century Biographical Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military Winston Churchill
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This was an enjoyable story although, I put the book on a timer when I go to bed and think I may have fallen asleep and missed a bit as the ending didn’t completely make sense. Great narration though.

Enjoyable Story

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Everything about this story was so great stayed up at night to listen to more wanting to k ow what happened

Heart stopping kept you listening fantastic reading

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Never knew that was done in the second world war!! How resourceful people are under adversity!!

How interesting!!

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Nothing to really dislike a story based on what we know about WW2 resistance experiences without it being too hard to listen to. It was an easy listen to while knitting with a kind satisfying conclusion

Good story good narration

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