Book description
The author of the “engrossing” (People) international bestseller The Room on Rue Amélie returns with a moving story set amid the champagne vineyards of France during the darkest days of World War II, perfect for fans of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Champagne, 1940: Inès has just married Michel,…
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True confession time…after reading The Winemaker’s Wife I hightailed it to the library and took out all of Kristin Harmel’s historical fiction titles (Book of Lost Names!!). Yes, they are that good! In The Winemaker’s Wife, Harmel transports her readers to 1940, a time when WWII and the Nazi regime threatened the lives and livelihoods of a particular Champagne House in France. She expertly taps into all of the five senses in her tale of love and betrayal, of the unyielding power of the human spirit in the face of adversity, and of a Resistance movement hidden beneath the…
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Spanning multiple timelines, EO-N weaves WWII mystery with contemporary social commentary.
Revolving around a missing aircraft discovered beneath a glacier decades after it disappeared, the story connects an American biotech executive, a Canadian investigator, the plane’s Canadian pilot, a disillusioned German pilot, and a young victim of Nazi horror.
Centering…
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