Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)

by Elizabeth Wein

“‘Anna the Avenging Angel,’ she said, and then she laughed at me. She laughed. She said, ‘Well, it’s your problem now.’”

If they hang me they will do it cleanly, break my neck instantly, and I will deserve it. They won’t make me betray anyone. They won’t make me watch it happening to anyone else.

I know the Allied Forces are planning a proper invasion of Occupied Europe with tanks and planes and gliders full of commandos, but when I think of France being liberated I picture an avenging army arriving on bicycles.

“Sorry—sorry!” I gasped. “Je suis désolée—” Unbelievable, I am still trying to speak French to people.

But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France—a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.