Rosie's war - Noel Holland

Rosie, a young Englishwoman from a comfortable middle-class background,
left her London home in 1939 to work as an au pair in Avignon in the
South of France. Even the outbreak of war later that year did little to
disturb her happy life there, until 1940 when Hitler launched an all-out
assault on Western Europe. Trying to escape back to Britain, Rosie was
only able to flee as far as Paris, where she was eventually rounded up
as an 'enemy alien' and sent to a German-run prison camp in Eastern
France. Desperate to escape, she eventually did so with an equally
industrious friend, Frida. After many months on the run in France, the
young women finally reached the unoccupied city of Marseille.
From
there, they continued to flee through France, Spain and Portugal, at
last arriving in Ireland where they were able to catch a plane back to
Britain. Moving, enthralling, and inspirational, Rosie's War is a book for all to enjoy.