The period of 1939 in Paris was a compendium of many outlooks: Fear, Hope and Confidence that the City of Lights and all of France would somehow evade the coming Nazi threat.
The resident of the apartments on Rue Amelie are a varied group. Ruby is the protagonist, an American, and married to a rather nasty fellow named Marcel Benoit. Marcel is engaged in a clandestine effort to help downed RAF pilots to escape France and return to England so they can fly again. Ruby undertakes this hazardous duty when Marcel goes permanently missing. Ruby’s neighbors are a Jewish family, the Dachers, one of whom is a teen girl named Charlotte. When the gestapo take the parents away for “relocation,” Ruby becomes a proxy mother to Charlotte.
The situation becomes ever more complicated when a downed RAF pilot named Thomas shows up at Ruby’s doorstep. She takes him in, hides him, and helps with his escape and return to England. During Thomas’s brief stay, he and Ruby fall in love and vow that they shall be together again on some fine day.
This is a beautiful story and there are many poignant events which occur with the war’s backdrop during the early 1940s. You will become very familiar and sympathetic with the characters in this story as they try to evade the Germans so they can live to fight another day. There are many bright spots along the way but, as is always the case in a massive war involving millions of innocent civilians, you’ll encounter several tragic but realistic events which our characters will endure. I was close to tears near the end of this book and I’ll wager that you will be as well.A
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