Gestapo Headquarters, Ormaie, France

The main setting for Part 1 of the novel is the Gestapo headquarters in Ormaie, France, where the narrator is being held prisoner. The headquarters is a former hotel that the Nazis have converted into a prison. Although it is not apparent during Part 1, the narrator is using her time inside to scout the building so that she can smuggle directions to the resistance as part of her mission to destroy the building. Julie does not survive to see her mission completed but the story has a happy ending of sorts when Maddie assists in the destruction of the headquarters and rescues the prisoner being held in Julie’s cell.

Stockport, England

Stockport is a town in Northern England where Maddie grew up and where the narrator begins her story of how she and Maddie came to be friends. It is significant because it symbolizes Maddie...