GOODNIGHT FROM PARIS
Jane Healey
Lake Union Publishing
March 7, 2023
405 pages
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Drue Leyton is a Hollywood actress, living in Paris at the start of WW2. As her French husband goes off on war duties, she stays behind and sends radio broadcasts to America, detailing life wartime life and begging America for help.
This is a story based on facts. Very detailed facts. Drue puts herself in danger to help others. Parts of the story are very intense. Seeing the newscasts from Ukraine helps to give this story life. While the war was fought eighty years ago, war is war. The tragedies and human losses don’t change.
I Googled Drue….I had to see what she looked like. She was a beautiful woman. I am amazed at the strength, bravery and courage that she had while putting herself in danger.
Kudos to the author for the research she did to relate this story. Most of the characters are real people. Ms. Healey admits to using literary license in some instances but she stays very close to facts as she learned from her research.
This book gives a totally different perspective on the war from others that I have read. It is interesting, compelling and informative.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers copy
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