In addition to alternating between their stories, there is also an elderly woman who is returning to Paris from her current home in America to attend a remembrance event. Of course, both of them are in impossible situations, where they have to make one awful choice after another, and they have no idea who to trust. When the war breaks out, she falls in love with a Resistance fighter, but when he too abandons her, she directs all her energy into the Resistance as well. Isabelle, who has just turned 18, has spent her life running away from boarding schools and looking for love from both her father and her sister. Left at home, Vianne’s life doesn’t remain peaceful either as their home is taken over by a German captain, food becomes increasingly scarce, and her best friend, who is Jewish, increasingly becomes a target. When war breaks out, Antoine leaves their quiet French village to fight on the front. Vianne has married her childhood sweetheart, Antoine, and they have one daughter (a miracle in a string of miscarriages and stillborns). Their father fought in the first World War and he never really recovered from the experience, pushing both of his daughters away after his wife died. They’re far apart in age, and their mother died when they were both pretty young. ![]() Vianne and Isabelle are sisters, but they’ve never been close. ![]() ![]() I finally finished it this week and it was worth all the hold lines. This was the final book of my most recent round of Tell Me What to Read and it took me forever to get to it because the hold lists were so long and then when it finally came up, I only got about 1/2 way through before my audio copy expired, so I had to wait in the hold lines AGAIN.Īnyway. If you haven’t read The Nightingale, you totally should. ![]() The Nightingaleby Kristin Hannah has 23,000 reviews on Amazon and 170,000 on Goodreads, so I’m not exactly the first person to tell you about this book.
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