![]() ![]() From now on, she was Juliette Gervaise, code name the Nightingale. This is the kind of thing I hated:įrom the moment she boarded this train bound for Saint-Jean-de-Luz, she would no longer be Isabelle Rossignol, the girl in the bookshop who lived on the Avenue de La Bourdonnais. Focused as it is on the women's stories that are too seldom told, I thought that this was some really important subject matter to explore through fiction, but with cliched, noncredible, and overblown writing, I don't think that Kristin Hannah pulled it off. It tells the story of two estranged sisters – Vianne and Isabelle Rossignol – and what they did to survive (and fight back against in their own ways) the Nazi occupation of France during WWII. ![]() I've had several people tell me that The Nightingale was their favourite read of 2015, and as it also won the Goodreads poll for best Historical Fiction for that year, I thought it was past time I read it, too. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. ![]()
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