![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Known as “The Mockingbird”, the Nazis love her and she faces death if captured. The brash Isabelle – “… Isabelle had always reacted simply in her life …” – is deeply involved in hiding and helps blow up allies while evading the Nazis. The Nazi officer’s comment “… I was following orders …” is the impetus that prompts Viann to take further action. Reality breaks her complacency when her best friend, a Jewess, is captured. When the Vichy government accepts the Nazi regime’s occupation of part of France, a kind-hearted Nazi officer housed at Viann’s country house allows him to overlook some of the atrocities taking place in Europe. He cannot deal with Isabelle’s rebellion and sends her to boarding school. He expels Viann from her home when she becomes pregnant and marries the young man with whom she is in love. “… Viann the rule-follower and Isabelle the rebel …” Her widowed father, emotionally damaged by his service in World War I, is unable to care for the two after his wife’s death. ![]() The Rosingal sisters, Viann and Isabelle, are as different as two sisters can be. I hid them in a dusty attic, away from prying eyes …” She, however, could not forget. By insisting that her son allow her to take an old trunk stored in the attic, the woman allows herself to remember her past life and that of her immediate family and during the years of the Nazi occupation of France. When an old woman prepares to leave her home for fifty years, she opens an old trunk and retrieves an identification card: “Juliette Gervais”. It is a novel of finding the courage to do the right thing and then doing the necessary thing to do the right thing. “The Nightingale” may be Kristin Hannah’s best book yet! Combining history, family and dynamic relationships, as well as focusing on people doing what it takes to survive the horrors of war, this novel draws readers to the story and keeps them firmly gripped from front page to last page. ![]()
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