Ordinary Courage Still Echoes Through Wartime Montparnasse
The second listing carries the same emotional promise, but the emphasis is endurance. Montparnasse becomes a place where music, risk and protection meet, offering historical-fiction readers a focused story of survival under occupation. It gives the book a steadier shape.
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The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse
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Ordinary Courage Still Echoes Through Wartime Montparnasse
The second listing carries the same emotional promise, but the emphasis is endurance. Montparnasse becomes a place where music, risk and protection meet, offering historical-fiction readers a focused story of survival under occupation. It gives the book a steadier shape.
- Book Synopsis
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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:
- Value ’ Paris-set wartime story of protection.
- Are curious about trace ordinary courage when danger closes in around civilians.
- Appreciate enter Nazi-occupied Montparnasse through music, danger and Resistance history.
- Choose emotional historical fiction about loyalty, risk and survival.
- 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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