A heart-wrenching and evocative dual timeline novel, contrasting the foreboding atmosphere of wartime Paris in the 1940s with Boston in the present day.
A heart-wrenching and evocative dual timeline novel, contrasting the foreboding atmosphere of wartime Paris in the 1940s with Boston in the present day.
'Kristin Harmel is firmly in the top echelon of WW2 storytellers' - HEATHER MORRIS
'A master storyteller' - SANTA MONTEFIORE
Paris, 1942: Anabel Martinet is a jewel thief, descended from a family that has spent centuries stealing from the unkind and giving to the deserving. Never has that mattered more than now, in the midst of the Nazi Occupation, and despite the enormous risks, Anabel begins stealing from Germans and collaborators and funnelling money to the French Resistance. But when she takes a pair of valuable bracelets from a high-ranking Nazi officer, she finds herself - and her two young daughters - in the line of fire from the Germans, with devastating consequences.
Boston, 2018: Colette Martinet, now in her eighties, has lived for decades with the trauma faced by her family after that fateful night that the Nazis came to arrest her mother for stealing the two precious bracelets. She too has spent a lifetime as a jewel thief, determined to find the lost bracelet from that night. When it finally surfaces as part of an exhibit at the Boston Diamond Museum, she hopes she can finally find some answers - and justice - for what happened to her family.
A heart-wrenching and evocative dual-timeline novel, perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Rachel Hore, Lucinda Riley and Kristin Hannah.
PRAISE FOR THE PARIS DAUGHTER:
'An unmissable reading treat' - Lancashire Evening Post
'Beautifully written and emotionally charged . . . impossible to put down' - HAZEL GAYNOR
'The Paris Daughter tore up my heart and put it back together again' - MARTHA HALL KELLY
'A gorgeous, gut-wrenching read!' - KATE QUINN
Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels including The Paris Daughter, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker's Wife, The Room on Rue Amélie, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. She is published in more than thirty languages and is the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series Friends & Fiction. She lives in Orlando, Florida with her husband and son.
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