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The Schoolteacher of Saint-Michel
- Narrated by: Natalie Pela
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel is a heartrending and deeply moving story of love and hope in World War II from the USA Today best-selling author of The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon.
The war taught her to fight. The children taught her to hope....
Inspired by real acts of bravery and resistance, The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel is a heartrending and deeply moving story of one woman's courage and sacrifice during World War II, from the USA Today best-selling author of The Missing Piece of Nancy Moon.
This exquisitely beautiful novel is perfect for fans of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, The Postmistress, Lilac Girls and The Girl from Vichy.
'My darling girl, I need you to find someone for me....'
France, 1942. At the end of the day, the schoolteacher releases her pupils. She checks they have their identity passes and warns them not to stop until the German guards have let them through the barrier that separates occupied France from Free France. As the little ones fly across the border and into their mothers' arms, she breathes a sigh of relief. No one is safe now. Not even the children.
Berkshire, present day. A letter left to her by her beloved late grandmother Gigi takes Hannah Stone on a journey deep into the heart of the Dordogne landscape. As she begins to unravel a forgotten history of wartime bravery and sacrifice, she discovers the heartrending secret that binds her grandmother to a village schoolteacher, the remarkable Lucie Laval....
Critic reviews
"A beautifully worked tale of bravery, woven into the reality of a time we can't forget." (Mandy Robotham, author of The Berlin Girl)
"An emotional, beautifully constructed read. I loved the way the clues from the past and present slowly knitted together, answering the questions that had been missing their answers for so long." (Sunday Times best-selling author Jill Mansell)
"Gripping, at times heartbreaking, but ultimately uplifting, I found this beautifully written novel impossible to put down." (Sunday Times best-selling author Katie Fforde)
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- Ellen
- 05-07-21
Really enjoyable
I very much enjoyed “The School Teacher of Saint - Michel. I usually avoid such wartime drama as they are riddled with historical inaccuracies however I found I could easily slip in to the older time zone without too much jarring. Some of the language used by the characters was too modern but it was a sprinkling and easy to ignore. The strength of this book lies in the characters and storyline of the war years. I found Hannah intensely irritating and for a woman of clear intelligence I was incredulous about how little we were meant to believe she had known about the era. The setting of the modern day Saint Michel was a pleasant place to be but Hannah was just too earnest and “woke”. In all honestly I could have done without the modern day characters, they tied the threads with the older timeline but I don’t feel they added anything to the storyline. The modern day section was not the one I wanted to hear and the book could easily have been completed with just the one timeline.
Strangely enough I enjoyed the narration of Lucy’s timeline, in Hannah’s it became a bit more wishy-washy. I think that was simply down to the fact the plot was a little stretched and the characters less strong, as a listener you simply couldn’t become as invested in their ending.
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- Helen SJ
- 04-12-21
An Amazing book.
This book dragged me into the story within quick smart and I was happy to acquiesce. Beautifully written, it weaves in and out of timelines seamlessly to pull together people's accounts and experiences of WWII in France.
If you enjoy hearing about the exploits of the French Resistance you will love this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-03-23
Very much enjoyed this book
The story was well laid out and kept you in suspense
Well narrated, would recommend
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- Seew
- 04-03-22
Narrator is terrible!
I gave up so a waste of a credit. I just couldn’t get past the terrible narrator. Her inflection was all wrong and quite frankly she sounded bored. Not a gripping story either. I wouldn’t bother.
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