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The Room on Rue Amelie
A powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family by a New York Times bestselling author
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A powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family by an international bestselling author. War has torn them 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...
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See moreA moving and entrancing novel set in Paris during the Second World War about an American woman, a dashing pilot, and a young Jewish girl whose fates unexpectedly entwine. For fans of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, The Room on Rue Amelie is a powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family by an international bestselling author.
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Description
A powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family by an international bestselling author.
War has torn them 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, Ruby's marriage begins to splinter, too.
Charlotte Dacher is eleven when the Germans take over the French capital and her parents are suddenly deported, tearing her life apart. Her kind neighbour, Ruby, offers to step in and look after her. But can they work together to mend their broken hearts - and summon the courage to defy the Nazis - as they fight to survive?
"Kristin Harmel is firmly in the top echelon of WW2 storytellers" — HEATHER MORRIS
"A master storyteller" — SANTA MONTEFIORE
PRAISE 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
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035426362
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Mountain Leopard Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 34.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 192.0mm
Weight: 291g
Pages: 416
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About the Author
Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels including The Paris Daughter, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker's Wife, The Room on Rue Amelie, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. She is published in more than thirty languages and is the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series Friends & Fiction. She lives in Orlando, Florida with her husband and son.
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