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The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

Start date: January 12, 2016

Finish date: January 31, 2016

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May 30, 2015 Michelle rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: reviewed, historical-fiction, family, romance, x-reading-university, 2015, tear-jerkers, choice-awards-2015, war

A beautifully written, heartbreaking piece of historical fiction. Set in World War II France during the Nazi occupation, we follow the lives of two sisters who both deal with the war in very different ways. Young, impulsive Isabelle rushes headlong into the Resistance, while her older sister Vianne is just trying to keep her daughter alive until her husband returns from the Front.

This book will leave you emotionally shredded, for sure. So much sadness and senseless death. War is never an easy re ...more

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Mar 14, 2024 Seahorse Library marked it as skimmed

Reserved library.

This got off to a slow start for me… I found the characters vaguely annoying. But I’ll push through since this book is so popular.

I got about halfway in - I have this a good chance! But I find this super boring. Not for me, I suppose.

Anyways I read the plot summary and the second half sounds like a lot happens. But life is too short for books that don’t grab me. So maybe another time :)

Skimmed.

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Jan 06, 2025 Britt rated it it was amazing

My sister bought this for me as a Christmas gift and I just devoured it in less than two days.
It was one of the best books I’ve read in a very long time.
It completely tore my heart out. Ugly sobbing occurred
It’s beautifully written, it’s a beautiful story, it’s historically accurate and it sheds light on the stories of the untold female heroes of war that often aren’t told.
Go and read it.

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