The Nightingale

1939, France - Vianne Mauriac bids her husband, Antoine, farewell in the tranquil town of Carriveau as he prepares to leave for the Front. She doesn't think the Nazis will attack France... But they do invade, in droves of marching soldiers, convoys of trucks and tanks, and planes that fill the skies and dump bombs on the helpless. When a German captain seizes Vianne's home, she and her daughter are forced to live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food, money, or hope, and as danger surrounds them, she is forced to make one difficult choice after another in order to keep her family alive.

Isabelle, Vianne's eighteen-year-old sister, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl yearning for meaning with the wildfire of youth. While millions of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love wholeheartedly, as only the young can. When he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, putting her life in danger time and again to save others.

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Author: Kristin Hannah
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/21853621-the-nightingale