The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah on February 3, 2015
Genres: Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War II, Fiction / Women
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
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I don’t know why I waited so long to read this one! If you haven’t read this one yet – WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?! I don’t think I could explain this any better than Goodreads did so I am just going to include the excerpt here:
In love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.
FRANCE, 1939
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.
Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaëtan, 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 time and again to save others.
You will cry, you will laugh, and you will have all the emotions for this one! This one is a very powerful book about the role of women during WWII and I think this is going to be my favorite WWII book of all times.