synopsis of the nightingale by kristin hannah

Isabelle finds a downed Allied airman in Paris and brings him to the resistance group. Beck helps Vianne to get in touch with Antoine through letters. Her friend, Rachel is fired from her job. Vianne is asked by Beck to give a list of names of Jewish people and other undesirables who work at the school. Isabelle is soon asked to move to Paris on a resistance assignment. Vianne fears that Isabelle’s action will draw the attention of the Germans and cause them harm. A Nazi named Beck billets with Vianne and treats her and Sophie kindly though Isabelle is upset with him being in the house. She gets interested in the resistance group that he is part of and she begins to involve in spreading propaganda against the Nazis. She meets a young man named Gaetan and falls in love with him. Isabelle returns to Carriveau to live with Vianne after Nazis invade Paris. She is rebellious and soon gets expelled from several boarding schools and finally requests her father to take her in.Īs the war begins, Antoine is asked to join the army while Vianne continues her work at the school as a teacher. Isabelle, the younger sister, has been living boarding schools from childhood because her father was unwilling to raise her up and her sister was too weak to look after her. She is married to Antoine a daughter named Sophie. It is war time in France and Vianne, the older sister, lives in Carriveau, a picturesque small town. He notices a photo of a woman named Juliette Gervaise and asks his mother who she is. Her son helps her settle in a retirement home. The story begins in 1995 at the Oregon Coast where an elderly woman is dying of cancer. In the process both learn their real mettle and what they are really capable of. One of them is rebellious opts to fight for France while the looks for ways to survive through the war with her family. The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah, is a story about two French sisters who struggle to survive during World War II.

Synopsis of the nightingale by kristin hannah