num_pages: 400
description: For fans of Kristin Hannahs The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kellys Lilac Girls this powerful novel of fate resistance and familyby the international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet Againtells the tale of an American woman a British RAF pilot and a young Jewish teenager whose lives intersect in occupied Paris during the tumultuous days of World War II.When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcel she imagines strolling arm in arm along the grand boulevards awash in the golden afternoon light. But war is looming on the horizon and as France falls to the Nazis her marriage begins to splinter too.Charlotte Dacher is eleven when the Germans roll into the French capital their sinister swastika flags snapping in the breeze. After the Jewish restrictions take effect and Jews are ordered to wear the yellow star Charlotte cant imagine things getting much worse. But then the mass deportations begin and her life is ripped forever apart.Thomas Clarke joins the British Royal Air Force to protect his country but when his beloved mother dies in a German bombing during the waning days of the Blitz he wonders if hes really making a difference. Then he finds himself in Paris in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and he discovers a new reason to keep fightingand an unexpected road home.When fate brings them together Ruby Charlotte and Thomas must summon the courage to defy the Nazisand to open their own broken heartsas they fight to survive. Rich with historical drama and emotional depth this is an unforgettable story that will stay with you long after the final page is turned.
language: English
title: The Room on Rue Amelie
publisher: Gallery Books