St. Martin's Griffin
May 2017
On Sale: April 25, 2017
Featuring: Vianne Mauriac; Isabelle
592 pages ISBN: 1250080401 EAN: 9781250080400 Kindle: B00JO8PEN2 Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
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
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.