Book - Nightingale

In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the front. She doesn't believe the Nazis will invade France... but they do invade, in waves of marching soldiers, in convoys of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs on innocents. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything.

With no food, no money, and no hope, as danger intensifies around them, she is forced to make one impossible decision after another to keep her family alive.

Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is an eighteen-year-old rebel, searching for purpose with all the reckless abandon of youth. As thousands of Parisians march toward 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 as only the young can… completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life again and again to save others.

With courage, grace, and deep insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic sweep of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the story of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France. a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

Genres: Historical Fiction / Fiction / Book Club / Historical / World War II / War / Romance / Adult