The Paris daughter

Title:

The Paris daughter

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Summary:

Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change.When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life--her young daughter, playmate to Juliette's own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette's Librairie des Rêves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette's world is destroyed along with it. More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend's bookstore reduced to rubble--and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Elise's desperate search leads her to New York--and to Juliette--one final, fateful time. -- Provided by publisher.

Edition:

First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

Physical Description:

376 pages ; 24 cm

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Subject Term:

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Women booksellers -- Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Paris (France) -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Gallery Books,

Publication Date:

2023

ISBN:

9781982191702

Publication Information:

New York : Gallery Books, 2023.

Call Number:

HARMEL

Holds: Copies:

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607003661603	Adult Fiction	HARMEL Kristin	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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Instant New York Times bestseller!

From the bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" ( People ) The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation.

Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change.

When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life--her young daughter, playmate to Juliette's own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette's Librairie des Rêves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette's world is destroyed along with it.

More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend's bookstore reduced to rubble--and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Elise's desperate search leads her to New York--and to Juliette--one final, fateful time.

An "exquisite and gut-wrenching novel" (Lisa Barr, New York Times bestselling author) you won't soon forget, The Paris Daughter is also a sweeping celebration of resilience, motherhood, and love.

Author Notes

Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels including The Forest of Vanishing Stars , The Book of Lost Names , The Room on Rue Amélie , 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.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The friendship between two American expats in WWII Paris leads to life-altering events in the powerful latest from Harmel (The Forest of Vanishing Stars). It's 1939, and Elise LeClair, an American artist married to French artist Olivier, is pregnant with their first child and has newly befriended Juliette Foulon, an American bookseller who is expecting her third child with her husband, Paul. After the Germans invade and LeClairs' daughter, Mathilde, is born, Elise begs Oliver to keep a lower profile with his work with the Resistance, but in 1941 he's arrested and beaten to death by the Nazis. His art dealer tells Elise the Germans are looking for her, forcing her to flee and leave Mathilde with Juliette. After the war, Elise finds the Foulons' bookstore reduced to rubble, and she learns that only Juliette and her youngest child Lucie survived the Allied bomb that killed Paul, their two older children, and Mathilde. Overcome with guilt, Elise struggles to move forward as an artist. Years later, Elise tracks down Juliette and Lucie in New York City, where her effort to seek closure is particularly wrenching. Harmel brings the novel's historical moments to life through deep research and enriching historical facts, and she conveys an acute sense of her characters' emotions as they face tragedy upon tragedy. This is Harmel's best to date. Agent: Holly Root, Root Literary. (June)