Keeping Your Head
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Terror is rife in the city's streets. The French revolution is merciless.
Fourteen-year-old Flora has been given refuge in a slum cellar, along with her mother and older sister, but it is only a matter of time before they are discovered.
To survive, they are forced to separate, and Flora wonders if they will ever meet again?
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