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Book Review: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

What do I love about a great book?  I love the simplicity of a story that passionately needs to be told.  I think that happens anytime someone tackles a fictional novel about World War II.  The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is one of those stories.  The Nightingale is a story about two sisters, Isabelle and Vianne, who are living in France in the late 1930s. Vianne, a mother and wife, quietly enjoys life in the French countryside with her husband and daughter. Her best friend Rachel is next door. They are charmed and happy. Isabelle is Vianne's spirited younger sister who has a history of getting expelled from various boarding schools. She's passionate, reckless and brave. With their mother gone and their father lost to alcoholism, the sisters have no family except for each other, but sadly, they are not close. But that was before the war.  Vianne finds herself alone after her husband leaves to fight for France. Soon, there's a German s