All The Ways We Said Goodbye
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Grease pencil make along bar code on back cover of dust jacket. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“To them, it’s everything. Each identity card I create—each one you deliver—represents a unique and singular life; a person, an airman or an agent or a Jew who has another chance to survive. Don’t ever forget that. Don’t ever lose yourself thinking of the ones you couldn’t save instead of the ones you did.”
The heiress…The Resistance fighter…The widow…Three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotel.
France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer met during Aurelie’s debutante days in Paris. Despite their conflicting loyalities, Aurelie and Max’s friendship soon deepens into love, but betrayal will shatter them both, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz—the home of her estranged American heiress mother, with unexpected consequences.
France, 1942. Raised by her indomitable, free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz, Marguerite “Daisy” Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator, after France falls to Hitler. At first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her grandmother’s Resistance efforts, Daisy agrees to act as a courier for a skilled English forger known only as Legrand who creates identity papers for Resistance members and Jewish refugees. But as Daisy is drawn ever deeper into Legrand’s underground network, committing increasingly audacious acts of resistance for the sake of the country—and the man—she holds dear, she uncovers a devastating secret…one that will force her to commit the ultimate betrayal, and to confront at last the shocking circumstances of her own family history.
France, 1964. For Barbara “Babs” Langford, her husband Kit, was the love of her life. Yet their marriage was haunted by a mysterious woman known only as “La Fleur.” On Kit’s death, American lawyer Andrew “Drew” Bowdoin appears at her door. Hired to find a Resistance fighter turned traitor knows as “La Fleur,” the investigation has led to Kit Langford. Curious to know more about the enigmatic “La Fleur,” Babs joins Drew in his search, a journey of discovery that takes them to Paris and the Ritz—and to unexpected places of the heart…
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Grease pencil make along bar code on back cover of dust jacket. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“To them, it’s everything. Each identity card I create—each one you deliver—represents a unique and singular life; a person, an airman or an agent or a Jew who has another chance to survive. Don’t ever forget that. Don’t ever lose yourself thinking of the ones you couldn’t save instead of the ones you did.”
The heiress…The Resistance fighter…The widow…Three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotel.
France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer met during Aurelie’s debutante days in Paris. Despite their conflicting loyalities, Aurelie and Max’s friendship soon deepens into love, but betrayal will shatter them both, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz—the home of her estranged American heiress mother, with unexpected consequences.
France, 1942. Raised by her indomitable, free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz, Marguerite “Daisy” Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator, after France falls to Hitler. At first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her grandmother’s Resistance efforts, Daisy agrees to act as a courier for a skilled English forger known only as Legrand who creates identity papers for Resistance members and Jewish refugees. But as Daisy is drawn ever deeper into Legrand’s underground network, committing increasingly audacious acts of resistance for the sake of the country—and the man—she holds dear, she uncovers a devastating secret…one that will force her to commit the ultimate betrayal, and to confront at last the shocking circumstances of her own family history.
France, 1964. For Barbara “Babs” Langford, her husband Kit, was the love of her life. Yet their marriage was haunted by a mysterious woman known only as “La Fleur.” On Kit’s death, American lawyer Andrew “Drew” Bowdoin appears at her door. Hired to find a Resistance fighter turned traitor knows as “La Fleur,” the investigation has led to Kit Langford. Curious to know more about the enigmatic “La Fleur,” Babs joins Drew in his search, a journey of discovery that takes them to Paris and the Ritz—and to unexpected places of the heart…
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Grease pencil make along bar code on back cover of dust jacket. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“To them, it’s everything. Each identity card I create—each one you deliver—represents a unique and singular life; a person, an airman or an agent or a Jew who has another chance to survive. Don’t ever forget that. Don’t ever lose yourself thinking of the ones you couldn’t save instead of the ones you did.”
The heiress…The Resistance fighter…The widow…Three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotel.
France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer met during Aurelie’s debutante days in Paris. Despite their conflicting loyalities, Aurelie and Max’s friendship soon deepens into love, but betrayal will shatter them both, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz—the home of her estranged American heiress mother, with unexpected consequences.
France, 1942. Raised by her indomitable, free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz, Marguerite “Daisy” Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator, after France falls to Hitler. At first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her grandmother’s Resistance efforts, Daisy agrees to act as a courier for a skilled English forger known only as Legrand who creates identity papers for Resistance members and Jewish refugees. But as Daisy is drawn ever deeper into Legrand’s underground network, committing increasingly audacious acts of resistance for the sake of the country—and the man—she holds dear, she uncovers a devastating secret…one that will force her to commit the ultimate betrayal, and to confront at last the shocking circumstances of her own family history.
France, 1964. For Barbara “Babs” Langford, her husband Kit, was the love of her life. Yet their marriage was haunted by a mysterious woman known only as “La Fleur.” On Kit’s death, American lawyer Andrew “Drew” Bowdoin appears at her door. Hired to find a Resistance fighter turned traitor knows as “La Fleur,” the investigation has led to Kit Langford. Curious to know more about the enigmatic “La Fleur,” Babs joins Drew in his search, a journey of discovery that takes them to Paris and the Ritz—and to unexpected places of the heart…
ISBN 978-0-06-293109-2
Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White
2020