Resisting the Enemy follows the story of Valentine de Vaillant – known as Valli – from a twelve-year-old schoolgirl in Australia, to a young woman living in German Occupied France. From the moment Valli joins a Resistance group, she engages in a series of clandestine activities that at any moment could lead to arrest by the dreaded Gestapo. When a German Army officer is billeted at her grandmother’s villa, Valli’s world is thrown into turmoil. How can she possibly reconcile her growing attraction to a German – a member of a brutal oppressive regime – with her life as a French patriot and resistant. Resisting the Enemy is a thrilling story of conflict, danger and passion. A love between enemies that seems impossibly doomed. It moves from the beaches of Australia, to the boulevards of pre-war Paris, through the German invasion and the dark years of the Occupation. It is also about music and opera, the enduring bonds of friendship, and one young woman’s fight to resist oppression, no...

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