He treats Vianne and Sophie kindly even when Isabelle speaks up. Isabelle lives with Vianne, but remains outspoken, which Vianne fears will draw the attention of the Germans and cause them harm.Ī Nazi named Beck billets with Vianne. Gaetan invites her to join the French resistance, but leaves her behind in Carriveau. When the car runs out of fuel, Isabelle begins to walk and meets a young man named Gaetan, with whom she falls in love. She is to return to Carriveau to live with Vianne. Julien, Isabelle and Vianne's father, sends Isabelle away with the Humberts to escape Paris as the Nazis invade. Vianne is certain she'll be unable to carry on alone. The two women are left alone to raise their daughters and continue their teaching jobs at a school at which they both work. When France is drawn into the war, Antoine is sent to fight as a solider as is Vianne's best friend Rachel's husband, Marc. Isabelle has just been expelled from another school and goes to Paris to convince her father to allow her to live with him. Isabelle is impetuous and has run away from or been expelled from several schools. Isabelle, the younger sister, has been living in one boarding school after another because her father is incapable of raising her and Vianne was unable to do so after suffering a miscarriage. Vianne enjoys her quiet life and relies on her husband, Antoine, to take care of everything.
She is married and has one daughter, Sophie.
Vianne, the older sister, lives in the town of Carriveau where there is an airstrip. The main plot begins just as France is being drawn in the war.
The elderly woman begins to remember the story of Vianne and Isabelle. As her son is helping her, he sees a photo of a woman named Juliette Gervaise and asks his mother who she is. Her son is helping her to move to a retirement home. The Nightingale begins at the Oregon Coast in 1995 with an elderly woman who is dying of cancer. Both sisters learn who they are and what they are capable of as the war wages on. One sister is rebellious and intent on fighting for France while the other simply wants to survive the war with her family intact. The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah, is about two sisters struggling to survive during World War II in France.
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