All the Diamonds in Paris
the sweeping new novel from the New York Times bestselling author
Author: Kristin Harmel
A heart-wrenching and evocative dual timeline novel, contrasting the foreboding atmosphere of wartime Paris in the 1940s with Boston in the present day.
9th June 2025
Paperback
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A heart-wrenching and evocative dual timeline novel, contrasting the foreboding atmosphere of wartime Paris in the 1940s with Boston in the present day.
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'Kristin Harmel is firmly in the top echelon of WW2 storytellers' HEATHER MORRIS
'A master storyteller' SANTA MONTEFIORE'The best at sweeping historical drama' KELLY HARMS'A dazzling diamond of a novel' HAZEL GAYNORParis, 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.Published under the title The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau in the USA 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 QUINNCritic Reviews
A rousing historical heist novel . . . about family, unfaltering love, tragic loss, and the choices - good and bad - that become our legacy SARAH McCOY, New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of Whatever Happened To Lori Lovely
This stunning story examines the complexity of morality, and the power that ordinary people have to enact change in the world around them . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough Colleen Oakley, USA Today bestselling author of The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise
A dazzling diamond of a novel . . . Moving deftly between occupied Paris during WW2 and between Boston and Paris many decades later, Kristin Harmel has a rare ability to touch the heart, and holds the reader in thrilling suspense throughout Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of Before Dorothy and The Last Lifeboat
About the Author
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 Amelie, 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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9th June 2025
