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I picked this one up in the adult section at the Scholastic Warehouse sale last year. I had never heard of it before, but it had glowing reviews on goodreads. I finally got around to reading it this past winter break and couldn't put it down. Great read. I concur with all the positive reviews. Put it on your list to read before it makes its adaptation from book to screen featuring the Dakota sisters.
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Get ready for the water works. For all of you who put this on the DNF list - I almost did not like this book either. In the beginning, I was really annoyed with the main characters and could not connect with them. However, the final half of this book was very well written, organized, and made it worth the read.
The story of two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle, living in France during WWII. Isabelle decides to join the resistance and ends up living in Paris. Vianne meanwhile is left at home with her Daughter Sophie while her husband is in a POW camp. A German officer comes to stay with them. I don't know how much of the details of the German occupation of France were true. What drew me into the story was the story of the sisters. I disliked the device of making you try to guess which sister lived to tell t
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Love historical fiction, but there's so much WW2 historical fiction I really get tired of it. Have avoided it completely for a long while. In June I came across The Golden Doves and have been fixated on WW2, again, ever since. What might it have been like for women in occupied France during this time of tremendous challenges? Though The Nightingale is considered fiction, it is well-researched, suspenseful, heart-breaking, gripping. The character Isabelle is based on the late Andrée de Jongh (191
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4 starts for literary writing and 5 stars for the compelling nature. I stayed up late, got up early, and cried through the final 30 minutes.
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