num_pages: 440
description: In love we find out who we want to be.In war we find out who we are.FRANCE 1939In the quiet village of Carriveau Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband Antoine as he heads for the Front. She doesnt believe that the Nazis will invade Francebut invade they do in droves of marching soldiers in caravans of trucks and tanks in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Viannes home she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope as danger escalates all around them she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.Viannes sister Isabelle is a rebellious eighteen-year-old searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war she meets Gatan a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France and she falls in love as only the young cancompletely. But when he betrays her Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back risking her life time and again to save others.
language: English
title: The Nightingale
publisher: St. Martin's Press