Happy Monday! Can we make #backlistbookmonday a thing? I’m late to the Code Name Hélène party. I loved Ariel Lawhon’s The Frozen River, so I had to dip into her backlist.
The book is based on the real life story of Nancy Wake. Nancy, a New Zealander, was a newspaper reporter in Paris in the run up to WWII. After Germany invaded France, she began working to smuggle people and documents out of France. When the Germans placed a bounty on her, she fled to England. There, she trained with the British Special Operations Forces. She was sent back to France and became a leader in the French Resistance. What a life this woman had!
Lawhon does an excellent job weaving a narrative based on her extensive research of Wake. The story is tense, riveting, and heartbreaking. The audio narration by Barrie Kreinik and Peter Ganim was gripping and kept me engrossed in the story.
If you somehow haven’t read this yet, do yourself a favor and pick it up ASAP. It’s a good reminder that when the world is a dark and dangerous place, courageous and extraordinary women emerge.
Who’s your favorite historical fiction heroine—and is she as bad@ss as Nancy Wake?
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About the Author
Ariel Lawhon is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Timesbestselling author of historical fiction. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages and have been Good Morning America, LibraryReads, and One Book One County selections. She lives in the rolling hills outside Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and four sons. Ariel splits her time between the grocery store and the baseball field.
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