The Room on Rue Amelie: A powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family by a New York Times bestselling author

By: Kristin Harmel

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Synopsis: A powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family by an international bestselling author.War has torn their love apart . . . can fate bring them back together?When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcel, she imagines strolling arm in arm along the grand boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But war is looming on the horizon, and as France falls to the Nazis, her marriage begins to splinter, too.Charlotte Dacher is eleven when the Germans roll into the French capital, their sinister swastika flags snapping in the breeze. After the Jewish restrictions take effect and Jews are ordered to wear the yellow star, Charlotte can't imagine things getting much worse. But then the mass deportations begin, and her life is ripped forever apart.'Kristin Harmel is firmly in the top echelon of WW2 storytellers' HEATHER MORRIS'A master storyteller' SANTA MONTEFIOREPRAISE FOR THE PARIS DAUGHTER:'An unmissable reading treat' Lancashire Evening Post'Beautifully written and emotionally charged . . . impossible to put down' HAZEL GAYNOR'The Paris Daughter tore up my heart and put it back together again' MARTHA HALL KELLY'A gorgeous, gut-wrenching read!' KATE QUINN