Girl on a Golden Pillow - Woolley, Hugo
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Charlotte is born, motherless and into a life of tragedy and adventure. She is brought up by her uncaring aunt and uncle, inherits her grandmother's Parisian mansion in Avenue Foch, along with a priceless set of paintings - the Barrett Collection. In her teens, Charlotte grows into a beautiful young woman. However, she is caught up in the invasion of Paris by the Nazis, and the occupation of her mansion by the SS. She meets a Turkish prostitute, Madam Theodora, and falls in love with a handsome SS officer, Jost Krupp. Underlying all is Charlotte's traitorous uncle, Sir Jason Barrett, a senior…mehr

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Charlotte is born, motherless and into a life of tragedy and adventure. She is brought up by her uncaring aunt and uncle, inherits her grandmother's Parisian mansion in Avenue Foch, along with a priceless set of paintings - the Barrett Collection. In her teens, Charlotte grows into a beautiful young woman. However, she is caught up in the invasion of Paris by the Nazis, and the occupation of her mansion by the SS. She meets a Turkish prostitute, Madam Theodora, and falls in love with a handsome SS officer, Jost Krupp. Underlying all is Charlotte's traitorous uncle, Sir Jason Barrett, a senior British diplomat in Paris, who is head of a secret espionage organisation called WASP.
Autorenporträt
Hugo Woolley was born in West Sussex. He is married with two grown-up children. His mother was an eccentric picture restorer. His father a farmer and lawyer. As a dyslexic, he went to a myriad of schools, mainly because, in those days, dyslexia had hardly been invented, let alone treated. It was known as 'word-blindness' and dyslectics were thought to be 'simple' and below intelligence. How wrong they were!Hugo is a caterer by training, ran various bars and restaurants in London before starting his own sandwich shops in the City of London in 1984 with his youngest brother, Oliver. In 1993 he opened designer sausage shops in Kent and Sussex, well before sausages became a fad. Unfortunately, after just over a year of trading, he was badly injured in a car accident and was airlifted to hospital, where Hugo remained for eight months being glued back together. Whilst in hospital he started writing, mainly about his experience during 'my crippledom' - as he called it.In 2002, when Hugo was mainly recovered, he moved to Cornwall. After over twenty years running a boutique small hotel just outside of Padstow, with his wife, Hugo has retired and has moved to a quiet village on the edges of Bodmin Moor, where he continues writing.