The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah's sweeping, devastating World War II novel about two sisters in Nazi-occupied France. Vianne, left alone when her husband is sent to fight, must find a way to survive and protect her family under German occupation; her wilder, more reckless younger sister Isabelle joins the Resistance, carrying out increasingly dangerous missions to smuggle downed Allied airmen to safety. A story of two very different kinds of courage, quiet endurance and open rebellion, this is one of the best-loved historical novels of the past decade and the book that cemented Hannah as a heavyweight of richly researched historical fiction.