De Blasi, Marlena. <br/><br/>
Amandine :  a novel / 
Marlena de Blasi 
 - New York :  Ballantine Books,  c2010 
 - x, 318 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>1931-39 : Montpellier -- May-June 1940 : Krakow, Paris -- June 1940 : Montpellier -- June 1940-April 1941 : journey through France -- April-July 1941 : letters from Andzelika to Janusz -- May 1941 : the same village in Bourgogne -- May 1941-November 1945 : Val-d’Oise -- November 1945 : on a train in Paris 
<br/><br/> Krakow, 1931. A baby girl is born out of wedlock, and deposited at a remote convent in the French countryside. Amandine is raised by her governess, Solange. As global war looms, the two flee toward Solange’s childhood home, and begin a perilous, years-long odyssey across Occupied France-- and deeper into the treacheries of war 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780345507341 0345507347 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nobility--Poland--Fiction<br/>Illegitimate children--Fiction<br/>Girls--Fiction<br/>Guardian and ward--Fiction<br/>Convents--Fiction<br/>Governesses--Fiction<br/>Birthmothers--Fiction<br/>World War, 1939-1945--France--Fiction