The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

05 October 2017
9781509848621
464 pages

Synopsis

The bestselling Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

Soon to be a major motion picture, The Nightingale is a multi-million copy bestseller across the world. It is a heart-breakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the endurance of women.

This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II when women’s stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked . . . Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love and freedom in war-torn France.

Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

‘A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival’ - Kate Morton

‘Movingly written and plotted with the heartless skill of a Greek tragedy, you’ll keep turning the pages until the last racking sob’ - Daily Mail

‘I loved The Nightingale . . . great characters, great plots, great emotions, who could ask for more in a novel?’ - Isabel Allende, author of The House of the Spirits

‘A gripping tale of family, love, grief and forgiveness’ - Sunday Express

I loved The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, a talented writer of American stories; great characters, great plots, great emotions, who could ask for more in a novel?
Beautifully written . . . packed with action and emotion.
The real horrors of war; the deprivations; the risks are all there... This is a hauntingly tragic yet sympathetic novel