After reading this, I realized that the women fought just as hard as the men. WW2 and the Holocaust are often told from the perspective of the men I didn’t know what the women had to face. This book was an eye-opening experience for me. “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.”

The Nightingale is a moving and powerful story, illustrating the war for all the women left behind. The moment I started this, I couldn’t put it down. I wanted to read some more historical fiction and novel about WW2 sounded interesting. It’s over 550 pages and the writing was small. I was slightly intimidated when I first started this book.

It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.“ Content Warningswar – concentration camps – gun and physical violence – death/murder – gore – sexual assault – rape – discrimination – physical abuse/torture – cancer – miscarriage (mentioned) 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. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaëtan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. 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. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. 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.

In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front.

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