Two sisters. One must be brave. One should be afraid.

Soon to be a major motion picture, The Nightingale is a multi-million copy bestseller across the world. It has become a phenomenon that has enthralled a generation of readers. 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. It is a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirt and the endurance of women. It 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, bestselling author of The House of the Spirits ''A griping tale of family, love, grief and forgiveness'' - Sunday Express

Autorentext

Kristin Hannah is an award-winning international number one bestseller with more than 25 million copies of her books sold worldwide. Her novels include, most recently, The Women (which topped the Sunday Times bestseller chart), The Four Winds and The Great Alone. The Nightingale is the winner of numerous best fiction awards and is soon to become a major movie, and Kristin's much-loved earlier novel, Firefly Lane, was a number one blockbuster series on Netflix. Her writing has taken readers across multiple eras and to many places, but the thing that connects all of her work is the focus on what it's like being a woman in challenging times. Kristin is a lawyer-turned-writer and is the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle.

Klappentext

Hannah's thought-provoking novel of sisterhood in wartime, praised by "Kirkus" as a 'respectful and absorbing page-turner'. Film tie-in edition.

Zusammenfassung
Two sisters. One must be brave. One should be afraid. A heartbreaking, endlessly compelling work of historical fiction from Kristin Hannah, author of The Women.