The Nightingale

The 10th Anniversary Special Edition of the Bestselling Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick


Soon to be a major motion picture, The Nightingale has captured the hearts of millions of readers becoming a number one bestseller across the world. It is a heart-breakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the endurance of women.

'I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I’d like to be known'

This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II, when women’s stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked . . . Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love and freedom in war-torn France.

It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

Review

I loved The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, a talented writer of American stories; great characters, great plots, great emotions, who could ask for more in a novel? -- Isabel Allende, bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta

A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival -- Kate Morton, author of Homecoming and The Lake House

Beautifully written . . . packed with action and emotion -- Sara Gruen, bestselling author of Water for Elephants

Movingly written and plotted . . . you’ll keep turning the pages until the last racking sob ― Daily Mail

The real horrors of war; the deprivations; the risks are all there . . . This is a hauntingly tragic yet sympathetic novel ― The Cape Times

An unforgettable portrait of love and war ― People

The suspense builds slowly in this thought-provoking and absorbing novel ― Choice

The bestselling author hits her stride in this page-turning tale about two sisters, one in the French countryside, the other in Paris, who show remarkable courage in the German occupation during WWII . . . The author ably depicts war’s horrors through the eyes of these two women, whose strength of character shines through no matter their differences ― Publishers Weekly

A respectful and absorbing page-turner ― Kirkus Reviews

A gripping tale of family, love, grief and forgiveness ― Sunday Express

About the Author

Kristin Hannah is an award-winning international number one bestseller with more than 25 million copies of her books sold worldwide. Her novels include, most recently, The Women (which topped the Sunday Times bestseller chart), The Four Winds and The Great Alone. The Nightingale is the winner of numerous best fiction awards and is soon to become a major movie, and Kristin’s much-loved earlier novel, Firefly Lane, was a number one blockbuster series on Netflix. Her writing has taken readers across multiple eras and to many places, but the thing that connects all of her work is the focus on what it’s like being a woman in challenging times. Kristin is a lawyer-turned-writer and is the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle.