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Review: The Nightingale by Kristin
Hannah
Kristin
Hannah has done it once again in her latest book The Nightingale. It tells the
story of Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol who are drawn into the horrors
of World War II in France. Vianne is reserved and quiescent, a mother with a
daughter and husband at the front. Isabelle is her rebellious and spirited
younger hungry for a way to help drive the Nazis out of her beloved France and
will stop at nothing to do this. As the story unfolds both will be forced to go
to extraordinary lengths not just to help the war effort, but to survive their
own private nightmares. This was both an easy and extraordinarily difficult
book too read because the brutality that the characters had to survive was inexplicably
horrific beyond imagination. The plot unfolds pulling the reader into the time
period sparing no details of the misery experienced and the lengths that are
taken to not only survive but to save others. If you enjoy Kristin Hannah's
books this one is not to be missed. If
she is anew author for you, get ready for a journey to the heart of what it
means to be human, and to want to live.
Review by
Karen
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