The Resistance Girl Series

The Resistance Girl Series: A journey through courage and defiance

The Resistance Girl Series is a collection of sweeping historical novels that follow women living in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, from the First World War through the aftermath of the Second. These are not stories that rush toward battlefields or heroic gestures. They begin in ordinary lives, and stay close to what is lost, tested, and carried forward when the ordinary world can no longer hold.

Set primarily in Western Europe, the series spans eight interconnected novels, opening with In Picardy’s Fields, set during the First World War, and closing with The Resistance Girls Revisited, which returns to the characters in 1948. Along the way, readers move through kitchens, classrooms, border towns, safe houses, and private rooms, alongside women whose lives are gradually shaped by forces beyond their control.

Many of the novels are inspired by real lives and real events, though the stories themselves remain firmly rooted in character rather than spectacle. The women at the heart of the series are not symbols or slogans. They are daughters, sisters, lovers, and friends, navigating fear, loyalty, love, and compromise as the world around them shifts. Courage here is rarely announced. It is lived, often quietly, in choices made behind closed doors and, at times, on the battlefield.

What defines The Resistance Girl Series is its attention to atmosphere and aftermath. These novels linger in the world before rupture, because what comes after only matters if the reader has fully inhabited what is at stake. The war does not end when the fighting stops, and survival does not bring simple resolution. Memory, silence, and inheritance shape the lives that follow.

Written as stand-alone novels that form a larger arc, the series can be read individually or as a whole. Together, they offer an immersive, deeply human exploration of what it means to remain oneself when the structures that once protected ordinary life fall away.

If you are drawn to historical fiction that values depth over haste, character over spectacle, and stories that stay with you long after the final page, The Resistance Girl Series will feel like home.