Song of Resistance: The dazzling debut adult novel from Children's Laureate Patrice Lawrence, inspired by the life of WW2 icon Josephine Baker
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Dorothea Walker has escaped the poverty and prejudice of St Louis, but she faces new challenges in the City of Light. Pushed to the back of the chorus line, she is almost invisible - until one daring performance launches her into the spotlight.
Over the next fifteen years, her fame hits dizzying heights, and she finds love and friendship in the city she now calls home. But beyond its glittering nightclubs, Europe is changing. And when war arrives in France, Dorothea discovers that her status gives her access to places others cannot reach.
Drawn into spying for the Resistance, she embarks on a dangerous mission, playing a double game in clubs, salons, and occupied cities. Now, Dorothea must give her greatest performance of all, but one false move could cost her - and the country she loves - everything.
ON STAGE SHE DAZZLES. BEHIND ENEMY LINES, SHE RISKS EVERYTHING FOR FREEDOM.
From the smoky nightclubs of Montmartre to the perilous underworld of wartime espionage, Song of Resistance is a sweeping tale of ambition, romance, survival - and one woman who refuses to be silenced.
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About the author
Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer and the Children's Laureate 2026-2028. Her debut YA novel, Orangeboy, won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children's Fiction and was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award. Her subsequent novels have been much acclaimed and frequent visitors to prize lists. In 2021 Patrice was awarded an MBE for Services to Literature in the Queen's Birthday Honours. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Patrice was born in Brighton, raised in an Italian-Trinidadian family in mid-Sussex, and now lives on the South Coast of England.
