France has fallen to the Nazis. Britain is under siege. As BBC bulletins grow bleak, residents of Jersey abandon their homes in their thousands. When the Germans take over, Marlene Zimmer, a shy clerk at the Aliens Office, must register her friends and neighbours as Jews while concealing her own heritage, until eventually she is forced to flee. Layers of extraordinary history unfold as we chart Marlene's transformation from unassuming office worker to active Resistance member under the protection of artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, who manage to find poetry in the midst of hardship and unimaginable danger. Drawn from authentic World War II documents, broadcasts and private letters, "War on the Margins" tells the unforgettable story of the deepening horror of the Nazi regime in Jersey and the extraordinary bravery of those who sought to subvert it.
Libby Cone is a practicing radiologist who needed more work to do, so she earned an MA in Jewish Studies. "War on the Margins" is based on her thesis about the German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII.
A chance mention on the Web of a utopian settlement in Colonial Delaware gave Libby the idea for her next book, "Flesh and Grass." It is loosely based on the ill-fated Plockhoy settlement in what is now Lewes, Delaware, and is narrated by the blind son of the founder.
Libby lives in Philadelphia with her husband and many pets.
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