Resistance

Author	Owen Sheers
Cover artist	Johnny Ring
Language	English
Genre	Romantic, Speculative fiction
Publisher	Faber and Faber Limited
Publication date	2007
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	357
ISBN	ISBN 978-0-571-22964-2 (first edition, hardback) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character

Resistance is an alternate history novel by Welsh poet and author Owen Sheers. The plot centers around the inhabitants of a valley near Abergavenny in Wales in 1944–45, shortly after the failure of Operation Overlord and a successful German counter-invasion of Britain (see Operation Sea Lion), and a group of German Wehrmacht soldiers who stay there after the wives' husbands leave to serve in the covert British Resistance. The novel follows abandoned farmer's wife, Sarah Lewis and German commanding officer, Albrecht Wolfram as they form an unlikely relationship in spite of their backgrounds and political standings.

Owen's debut novel has been made into a screenplay scheduled for UK release on 25 November 2011. See Resistance (2011 film)

The Hereford Mappa Mundi features prominently in the book.^[1]

The novel features the German invasion of a small Welsh village near Abergavenny who have been instructed to locate and obtain an item for Himmler's collection.

The novel begins detailing Sarah's awakening to find her husband gone, with only the indent of his body in their mattress remaining.

• Sarah Lewis the protagonist is 26 year old traditional farmer's wife who in her husband's absence learns that she must fulfill his responsibilities in taking care of the farm. Initially Sarah is upset at her husband's and the other men's disappearances, however over the course of the novel she begins to accept to herself and to others that they may not return.