Author: Kristin Harmel
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Galley Books, 2023
Pages: 384
Rating: Highly Recommend
When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she trusts Juliette with her most precious thing in her life - her young daughter, playmate to Juliette's own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even in 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 - and one final, fateful time.
Review: This was a different type of World War II that focused more on the aftermath for survivors, rather than the atrocities and difficulties that occurred during the war.
The plot and, therefore time, advanced quickly and the author let the reader feel his/her own emotions, rather than projecting emotion and forcing the reader to feel any particular way.
This is the second Kristin Harmel novel I've read, and I plan to read all of them. She is a talented author.
Other Kristin Harmel Novels:
The Winemaker's Wife
The Sweetness of Forgetting
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