books.google.com - 1. The author described his motivation for writing Charlotte Gray in this way: 'I wanted to look at the insidious way that war affects individual lives.' War has an obvious effect on the love affair between Charlotte and Peter Gregory--it interrupts it. But what deeper effect does the war have on them...http://books.google.com/books/about/Charlotte_Gray.html?id=pfm2oWIjqmYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCharlotte Gray