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The Room on Rue Amélie
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby, Jacques Roy
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Publisher's Summary
For fans of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, this powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family - by the international best-selling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet Again - tells the tale of an American woman, a British RAF pilot, and a young Jewish teenager whose lives intersect in occupied Paris during the tumultuous days of World War II.
When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband, Marcel, she imagines strolling arm in arm along the grand boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But war is looming on the horizon, and as France falls to the Nazis, her marriage begins to splinter, too.
Charlotte Dacher is 11 when the Germans roll into the French capital, their sinister swastika flags snapping in the breeze. After the Jewish restrictions take effect and Jews are ordered to wear the yellow star, Charlotte can't imagine things getting much worse. But then the mass deportations begin, and her life is ripped forever apart.
Thomas Clarke joins the British Royal Air Force to protect his country, but when his beloved mother dies in a German bombing during the waning days of the Blitz, he wonders if he's really making a difference. Then he finds himself in Paris, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, and he discovers a new reason to keep fighting - and an unexpected road home.
When fate brings them together, Ruby, Charlotte, and Thomas must summon the courage to defy the Nazis - and to open their own broken hearts - as they fight to survive. Rich with historical drama and emotional depth, this is an unforgettable story that will stay with you long after the final minute.
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- Cat
- 2019-01-24
Great book and outstanding performance by the narrator
This is a book I recommend full heartedly. Its greatness lies in its simplicity, however there is nothing simple about the story, the emotions it stirs up or the characters you fall in love with. It has a nice pace too and Madeleine did a superb job giving life to all the characters. I’d give it 6 stars if I could.
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- 2020-04-07
How in the world has this earned 4.4 stars???
It sounds like the author googled "how to write a WWII story" and "inspirational memes," copied and pasted for a few hours, then got Siri to read it all aloud. I think I could have finished the story after a few glasses of wine, but the narrator put the nail in the coffin: bizarre, random breaks mid-sentence and dreadful fake accents made this book impossible to finish.
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- shan
- 2018-10-11
best audio book I come across yet.
I loved it! the story of hope and how people come together when the world is at war.
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- Lisa
- 2020-03-06
Incredible!
Beautiful story. Kept me engaged right to the end. The narration was very well done.
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- Laura C.
- 2018-09-14
Amazing characters in a wartime love story with true heroes!
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This audiobook tells a wonderful story about human resilience and heroism in difficult times. The characters are very believable, and you quickly become invested in their stories.
Great book!
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- Jessica T.
- 2021-06-23
Performance is grating
When the book started with Jacque’s reading, it was easy to be pulled into the story, like a first hand account.
But then Madeleine started reading and I was brought back to high school where students are having to read aloud to a class and it’s choppy, awkward and impersonal. The only thing I don’t care for on audible, is how often a great book is smudged by a bad performance.
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