Occupied Paris Tests One Teacher’s Quiet Courage
Heather Morris returns to wartime fiction with a premise built around courage under occupation. The piano teacher’s risk, the young girl’s danger and the Paris setting give the story an intimate emotional promise of bravery and survival. The choice feels deeply personal.
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Occupied Paris Tests One Teacher’s Quiet Courage
Heather Morris returns to wartime fiction with a premise built around courage under occupation. The piano teacher’s risk, the young girl’s danger and the Paris setting give the story an intimate emotional promise of bravery and survival. The choice feels deeply personal.
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Epic in scope and based on astonishing true-life people and events, Heather Morris’s new book is a novel of breathtaking beauty – gripping, heartbreaking and up-lifting.
In 1942, the Nazis came for a Jewish family living in Montparnasse, occupied Paris. In the chaos of their arrest, the eleven-year-old daughter fled to the only person she trusted: her piano teacher…
The author of the international bestseller, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, returns with a masterful new novel that captures the astonishing bravery of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
Inspired by real events and people, The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse tells the story of piano teacher and French Resistance operative, Andrée Levallois, and the young girl she risks everything for.
With the authorities closing in, Andrée and the girl are caught in a desperate race to stay alive. Soon, they are separated, and so starts Andrée’s fight for survival. She is determined to return and..
Ideal for readers who:
- Read historical fiction about courage under Nazi occupation.
- Follow a piano teacher who risks everything for a young girl.
- Appreciate Paris, resistance networks and wartime survival.
- Seek moving novels based on real people and extraordinary choices.
- About The Author
- Heather Morris’s life changed in 2003 when she met Lale Sokolov, an elderly man with ‘a story to tell’. It formed the basis of her first novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz and its follow-ups, Cilka’s Journey and Three Sisters, and began a lifelong interest in the retelling of true stories. Her most recent historical novel, Sisters Under the Rising Sun, is based on the experiences of women held in Japanese POW camps during World War II.
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