The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is the story of the women’s war in France during World War II.

The book centers around two sisters, Isabelle and Vianne, and the ways they survive the war in German-occupied France.

Isabelle and Vianne are nothing like one another. Vianne Mauriac has a daughter, Sophie, and a husband, Antoine. She lives in a small French village where she is a teacher alongside her Jewish-French best friend, Rachel de Champlain. Throughout the war, her number one priority is to keep her and her daughter safe.

On the other hand, Isabelle Rossignol is an eighteen year old girl with a rebellious spirit. She decides to join the French resistance against the Nazis, even though she is a woman in Europe in the 1940s, and will face much discrimination throughout her endeavors.

The Nightingale is a tale of war, love, loss, survival, freedom, and sisterhood, showing a part of history that is often overlooked--how the Nazi occupation of France left women to use resilience, strength, spirit, and hope to survive the war that broke so many. 

📚📚📚📚📚 - one of my favorites!!

Neerja