The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah 2015

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
WWII France occupation sisters

Our Take

Two French sisters survive the Nazi occupation of France by completely different means — one collaborating, one resisting. Hannah makes the moral complexity earn its melodrama. The ending's structure requires you to go back and reread the opening chapter, at which point it delivers the final blow.

This page contains affiliate links. If you buy a book through one of these links, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Full disclosure →