The Nightingale

France 1939 - In the quiet village of Carriveau Vianne Mauriac says goodbye 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 girl searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands 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 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. With courage grace and powerful insight bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories 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....See More