![]() ![]() Hannah, a popular writer of fiction about women, sets out the central issue of the book in the first paragraph: “In love we find out who we want to be in war we find out who we are.” As we read, we find out what Isabelle and Viann are willing and able to do to survive, and we are confronted with the haunting question: would we risk our lives for our children, our friends, the strangers in our midst? ![]() The result is an epic love story and family drama that portrays two young French women who are plunged into unimaginable chaos by a country at war, yet who must find within themselves the courage to face the forces of destruction in order to keep their families together. In The Nightingale, her twenty-first novel, she uses her considerable skill as a storyteller to transport us to France during World War II and bring us the story of Isabelle and Viann, who are sisters but not friends. ![]() Best-selling author Kristin Hannah is known for her mother-daughter fiction and her sensitive probing of the relationship of sisters. ![]()
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