1.
From
the beginning, “Verity” confesses that she is a coward, and that she is going to
tell the Nazis everything. Why?
2.
Why “Verity” starts her confessional
story from Maddie’s perspective rather than her own. Why?
3.
How did “Verity” and Maddie meet and
become friends?
4.
In what situation “Verity” was
arrested? What if you were “Verity” and were arrested and tortured, what would
you do?
5.
Who do you think switched Verity’s and
Maddie’s identification papers? Why?
6.
How well do we really get to know
“Verity”?
7.
What of her confession is “true”? She
ends her confession by repeating and repeating “I have told the truth.” What
truths has she shared?
8.
Why is SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden
keeping “Verity” alive and imprisoned at the Château de Bordeaux? Why do you
think he is willing to give her so much time to write her confession?
9.
In “Kittyhawk,” part two of the book,
the author changes narrators from “Verity” to Maddie. Does this change your
expectations of what’s going to happen? Does having two narrators detract from
the story or strengthen it? Why?
10.What are your
impressions of Anna Engel? Is she a sympathetic character? Why or why not?
11.When the resistances realize that they cannot free
Julie, Maddie faces an impossible choice, what does she do?
12.Given their bond
of friendship, Maddie has made a life-or-death choice, if you were her, would
you do the same?
13.How does Maddie
know that Julie, far from
being a coward, Julie played an elaborate double game by pretending to be a
collaborator while trying to find a way to complete her mission from inside the
prison?
14.What does Maddie
do avenge her friend’s
death?
15.What happens to Maddie after her return to England?
16.Do you like the book? If you were the author would you
end the story differently?
17.How do the roles
of the female characters, especially Maddie, foreshadow the women’s liberation
and equal rights movements that would take place a generation after the War in
Europe and the U.S.?
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