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By (author) Harmel Kristin

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A heart-wrenching and evocative dual timeline novel, contrasting the foreboding atmosphere of wartime Paris in the 1940s with Boston in the present day.

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”Kristin Harmel is firmly in the top echelon of WW2 storytellers” HEATHER MORRIS
”A master storyteller” SANTA MONTEFIORE

”The best at sweeping historical drama” KELLY HARMS

”A dazzling diamond of a novel” HAZEL GAYNOR

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Paris, 1942:
In the midst of the Nazi Occupation, Annabel Marceau begins stealing from Germans and funnelling money to the French Resistance. But when she takes a pair of valuable bracelets from a high-ranking Nazi officer, she finds herself – and her two young daughters – in the line of fire, with devastating consequences.

Boston, 2018:
Colette Marceau, now in her eighties, has spent a lifetime determined to find out what happened to her mother and sister that fateful night. When one of the missing bracelets surfaces at the Boston Diamond Museum, can she finally find the answers – and justice – she has been looking for?

*Published under the title The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau in the US*

A heart-wrenching and evocative dual-timeline novel, perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Rachel Hore, Lucinda Riley and Kristin Hannah.

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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

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A rousing historical heist novel . . . about family, unfaltering love, tragic loss, and the choices – good and bad – that become our legacy

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This stunning story examines the complexity of morality, and the power that ordinary people have to enact change in the world around them . . . I couldn”t turn the pages fast enough

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A dazzling diamond of a novel . . . Moving deftly between occupied Paris during WW2 and between Boston and Paris many decades later, Kristin Harmel has a rare ability to touch the heart, and holds the reader in thrilling suspense throughout

Biographical note:
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 Amélie, 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.