The Daughter's Tale

by Armando Lucas Correa

Based on the true story of the Nazi massacre of a French village in 1944, an unforgettable tale of love and redemption from the bestselling author of The German Girl.

Berlin, 1939: Bookstore owner and recent widow Amanda Sternberg is fleeing Nazi Germany with her two young daughters, heading towards unoccupied France. She arrives in Haute-Vienne with only one of her girls. Their freedom is short-lived and soon they are taken to a labour camp.

New York City, 2015: Elise Duval, eighty years old, receives a phone call from a woman recently arrived from Cuba bearing messages from a time and country that she's long forgotten. A French Catholic who arrived in New York after World War II, Elise and her world are forever changed when the woman arrives with letters written to Elise from her mother in German during the war, unravelling more than seven decades of secrets.

Inspired by one of the most shocking atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II, the 1944 massacre of all the inhabitants of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the south of France, The Daughter's Tale is a beautifully crafted family saga of love, survival and hope against all odds.

'Breathtakingly threaded together from start to finish with the sound of a beating heart.' THE NEW YORK TIMES

'Not many novels bring me to tears... it takes a special storyteller to tell the tale of such devastation. It seems so wrong to say I loved this book, but I did. I loved, I learned, I cried.' Natasha Lester

'Reminds us that it is in the darkest gardens that the brightest seeds of hope are sown' Kristin Harmel, bestselling author of The Room on Rue Amelie

• ISBN10: 1508267979
• ISBN13: 9781508267973
• Publish Date: 12 February 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Format: Audiobook (CD)
• Duration: 7 hours and 30 minutes
• Language: English

Reviews

[Kait ✨]

This reads like an outline or rough first draft. The premise itself was interesting put the execution was very poor. While the concept of this story was sad it just did not keep me captivated at all.

The writing is dry, confusing, and the characters are flat. The ending was a huge disappointment. Correa’s idea of what it was like to live through WWII is laughable. I obviously didn’t experience it, but I’m pretty sure most folks didn’t feel like “the war was becoming a distant memory” shortly after it ended.

I’m so bored of this I can’t be bothered to list all of what bothered me about this book but it’s a definite pass in my mind.