** Published in the US as Magic Hour ** Review:įirst published in 2006 as The Magic Hour, Wild by Kristin Hannah has seen a recent re-release. The shocking facts of Alice’s life test the limits of Julia’s faith and strength, even as she struggles to make a home for Alice – and find a new one for herself. Naming her Alice, Julia is determined to free her from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation, and discover the truth about Alice’s past. Julia Cates begins working with the extraordinary little girl. Having retreated to her hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist Dr. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past. From deep within this mysterious land, a six-year-old girl appears. In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olympic National Forest – a vast expanse of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah, comes Wild, a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope, and the promise of new beginnings. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women.
With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.
While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent.
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front.
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