Resistance by Owen Sheers

1944 and Germany has won the War.

In a remote Welsh Valley the women wake up to find all their menfolk have left
to join the resistance. They do what women always do, just get on with things.

When a German patrol comes into this valley the women embark on a path of passive resistance which changes as the winter sets in. Sarah Lewis a young woman develops a friendship with Albrecht as he talks to her of music and poetry and things her husband never knew about.

Bleak, realistic, heartbreaking but hopeful. My book of the year.