The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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CONTENTSTitle PageCopyright NoticeDedicationChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20Chapter 21Chapter 22Chapter 23Chapter 24Chapter 25
Chapter 26Chapter 27Chapter 28Chapter 29Chapter 30Chapter 31Chapter 32Chapter 33Chapter 34Chapter 35Chapter 36Chapter 37Chapter 38Chapter 39AcknowledgmentsAlso by Kristin HannahAbout the AuthorCopyright
Page 3: To Matthew Shear. Friend. Mentor. C
Page 7 and 8: single, hanging lightbulb swings ov
Page 9 and 10: TWOThe lights are going out all ove
Page 11 and 12: they were alone on the road. They l
Page 13 and 14: in the rough wooden rack that hung
Page 15 and 16: “I’m not,” she whispered too
Page 17 and 18: Lord knows the Germans are no match
Page 19 and 20: halted, throwing its head and snort
Page 21 and 22: Madame,” Isabelle said, returning
Page 23 and 24: Holland and Poland.“Will manners
Page 25 and 26: bee buzzed at a blossom; it sounded
Page 27 and 28: A man bumped into her so hard she s
Page 29 and 30: FIVEThey had been lied to by their
Page 31 and 32: She opened the back door and saw th
Page 33 and 34: She called out Patricia’s name, b
Page 35 and 36: “Does that scare you?”“No. It
Page 37 and 38: “What was your crime?”“I took
Page 39 and 40: Trees snapped in half and fell over
Page 41 and 42: In the front row, center, Sophie sa
Page 43 and 44: bedsheet?” Rachel smiled. “The
Page 45 and 46: hammer blows that made Vianne flinc
Page 47 and 48: “Shows what you know.” She roll
Page 49 and 50: Where was she?She sat up so quickly
Page 51 and 52: her sister, why she’d stayed away
Page 53 and 54: EIGHTThe surrender was a bitter pil
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Isabelle gave one last hate-filled
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connected by leather straps, the ce
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“We shouldn’t be late.”Even t
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been to two finishing schools and s
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count on you to be a gentleman?”
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Beck laughed at her.Isabelle made a
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NINEVianne closed the bedroom door
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* * *Vianne served supper in silenc
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suspenseful as a held breath, until
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past her.Gestapo.The airfield was a
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TENVianne closed her eyes and thoug
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coils of barbed wire. “You didn
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Henri turned to the back of the roo
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Vichy police doing here?”“Ah. N
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From here there would be no turning
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A military lorry honked at them and
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out of her clothes, tearing off the
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More tsking and murmurs. Some women
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of the teachers in your school who
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neck, obscuring all but her eyes. S
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of the classroom on a tide of laugh
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his office. On her way down the sta
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what will break you.”“It’s al
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Shame made Vianne look away, but on
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with the heavy towel in her basket
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perhaps he’d suffered a great los
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She leaned her bicycle against the
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German soldiers appeared in her yar
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“Isn’t that just like you? You
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long, low building. Built in the se
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FIFTEENAsking yourself a question,
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Vianne blinked slowly. It took her
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pushed her way into the shadowy lob
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you. I used to dream that someday y
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Then she remembered.Today was the d
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she had delivered her first secret
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“Hush,” Vianne said impatiently
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pieces of potato. When I get home,
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can do anything a man can do.”Mon
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narrowed. “And Isabelle, allow me
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SEVENTEENIn mid-June of 1941, on th
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What kind of woman was she to even
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Certainly you have a girl back home
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It was the supper hour. The one hou
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crushed it to her chest.Leaving the
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EIGHTEENIsabelle lay in bed, listen
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had if the worst happened. She went
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longer now, in need of cutting, had
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“Not for me.”He smiled. “You
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“But—”“I forge papers, Isab
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and forefinger. He knew he was to l
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At her knock, the heavy wooden door
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about.”“Are you saying Madame B
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past the tree line.Ahead, someone m
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“Alice.”“Get on your feet for
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“We hide here until nightfall,”
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back alleys; miles passed until the
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in the lock and gave a little twist
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She gazed down at the pearls, felt
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“I’m grateful,” Rachel said,
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Lighting it, she followed the secre
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her gardening tools in the shed and
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TWENTY-ONEWhen summer came to the L
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airmen get home. French men and wom
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* * *That night, Isabelle walked ac
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“What could it mean?”Isabelle p
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children, Anton and Hélène?”Isa
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On the third floor, she saw that th
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Rachel so much. It was really the o
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Vianne slipped a sleeping draught i
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markings of the border crossing.The
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Hide. I’ll take care of Sarah.”
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would hold her daughter and stroke
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car and strode into the yard, carry
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and get his crib and clothes.”Via
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TWENTY-FOURSummer ended. Hot golden
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only women and children standing in
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“I’m fine,” Vianne said.Sophi
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let him go. At last, she eased back
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she dared, burying it as best she c
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Sophie had had a restless night, so
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What should be done? The question h
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If he opened that door, it was over
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wooden floor, her own labored breat
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TWENTY-SIXMay 6, 1995The Oregon Coa
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TWENTY-SEVENOctober 1942FranceViann
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She heard his voice in her imaginat
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her into the backseat and slammed t
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Madame,” Paul said.“Madame Maur
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TWENTY-EIGHTIsabelle woke in a pitc
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“But you’re wrong. Maybe you we
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She got out of his way quickly, hur
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“You’re going to be sorry you d
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The sadness that came with being in
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were locked and shutters were close
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“Come, Jean Georges, we are going
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“Don’t look so afraid, Vianne.
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For hours, as they walked, they wer
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Isabelle turned to the woman who ha
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“Thank you.” She paused, lookin
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then she hurried for home.* * *Well
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THIRTY-ONEMay 6, 1995Portland, Oreg
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son.Julien gives her one of his ice
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As soon as they passed, Isabelle cr
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torchlights, which they swept forwa
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Before she could finish her thought
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He drew back.“You are scared,”
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THIRTY-THREEIsabelle woke tied to a
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bruised flesh.Where am I?Darkness s
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round up the villagers of Carriveau
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It had broken him.“You girls will
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release.“Look at me,” he said.S
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Her hands were shaking as she stood
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Truthfully, the biggest part of her
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rested her chin in the hard and emp
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* * *The train stopped. Isabelle sa
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THIRTY-FIVEAugust.Vianne breathed a
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“Your heart? You’d feel it in y
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“Maman, I dreamed there was candy
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crying, too. She went to him, kisse
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puckering scars that ran the length
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“Kiss me,” she whispered. “Ma
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shoulders and tightened them at her
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They were being sent to another cam
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break in her voice. She coughed a l
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begging for news of their loved one
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“We are all changed by this war,
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She squatted down and Daniel popped
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How could she keep Ari from his peo
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smoke puffed out from the rear exha
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Together they limped to the hospita
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Vianne leaned closer, pressed a coo
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“He did? Did he tell you that he
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Gaëtan.Vianne.She looked past Gaë
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He guides me out into the hallway,
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tag to my sunken chest, but all the
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“Vianne,” he says. “I wanted
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I will tell my son my life story at
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accurate as possible. I am forever
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ABOUT THE AUTHORKRISTIN HANNAH is a
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