Beloved Enemy: A Romantic Thriller

The novel covers a twenty-year period beginning in 1942. Alice, a young woman in the British Womens Army whose mother was German, agrees to become a spy. She is parachuted into enemy-occupied France and helped by the French Resistance to reach the German border, where she is met by members of the little-known German Resistance. Her job is to seduce a colonel who works in intelligence and who is involved in troop movements. The novel explores the effect of war on the lives of people while keeping its central focus on a determined, sensitive, maturing woman.

Sheila Belbin was influenced by the experiences of her Franco-German friend who lived throughout the Second World War in German-occupied France. Sheila is a retired lawyer. In 2008, she married Dr R. Meredith Belbin, an international management consultant. She lives near Cambridge