![]() ![]() ![]() She is also the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series, Friends and Fiction. Kristin Harmel is the author of a dozen novels including The Book of Lost Names, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Winemaker’s Wife, The Room on Rue Amélie, The Paris Daughter, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. Elise’s desperate quest to find out what happened to her daughter ultimately leads her to New York-and to Juliette-one final, fateful time. ![]() But which little girl-and what happened in the bookstore’s final moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a. ![]() Surviving neighbors tell her that Juliette and a little girl survived. More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend’s bookstore reduced to rubble. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette’s Librairie des Rêves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette’s world is destroyed along with it. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life-her young daughter, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. ![]()
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