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The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation there. The book was inspired by accounts of a Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, who helped downed Allied pilots escape Nazi territory. [1] [2] The Nightingale entered multiple bestseller lists upon release. As of ...
Hannah wrote her first novel with her mother, who was dying of cancer at the time, but the book was never published. [5] Hannah's best-selling work, The Nightingale, has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide and has been published in 45 languages. [6] [7] Hannah lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, [8] with her husband and their son.
Mary Russell Mitford (16 December 1787 – 10 January 1855) was an English essayist, novelist, poet and dramatist. She was born at Alresford in Hampshire , England. She is best known for Our Village , a series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters based upon her life in Three Mile Cross near Reading in Berkshire .
Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 – 9 February 1941), born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an English novelist. Born in Australia, she married a German aristocrat, and her earliest works are set in Germany. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell.
Gene Wolfe – science-fiction author; has written many novels and multivolume series; some, such as the Book of the New Sun and the Book of the Long Sun, are considered to be religious allegory; Julia Amanda Sargent Wood (pen name, Minnie Mary Lee; 1825 – 1903), American author
The Murder of Mary Russell Focuses on Mrs Hudson's story and how her past comes back to haunt Russell and Holmes. Mary Russell's War, and other stories of suspense is a collection of short stories set at various times. Island of the Mad Set in June 1925, directly after The Murder of Mary Russell, and takes Russell and Holmes to Venice tracking ...
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Or On the Segregation of the Queen is the first book in the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King. It was nominated for the Agatha best novel award and was deemed a Notable Young Adult book by the American Library Association. [1]
His father was William Shore (1752–1822). His mother was Mary née Evans (1760–1853) who died at Tapton House, Sheffield. She was the niece of one Peter Nightingale, a lead mining entrepreneur, under the terms of whose will William Shore inherited the Lea Hall estate in Derbyshire, but also assumed the name and arms of