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The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

• Historical Fiction
• WWII
• Literary Fiction
• 2015

Occupied France, 1939 to 1945: two Rossignol sisters, years and temperament apart, take different roads through the same war. Vianne Mauriac stays in the garden house at Carriveau with her daughter Sophie after her husband Antoine is taken prisoner, and learns what it costs to keep a child alive with German officers in the spare room. Isabelle, expelled and hungry to be useful, walks into the Resistance and becomes the Nightingale — the passeur who leads Allied airmen over the Pyrenees. Hannah braids their choices with a 1995 Oregon frame: an elderly woman, a trunk, an identity card that says Juliette Gervaise, and the question of which sister's war the people who love her were ever allowed to know.

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

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