The Light Behind The Window: A breathtaking story of love and war from the bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series

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However, something about Constance stands out and she is one of the few selected to the SOE (Special Operations Executive) and after fierce and extraordinary training she is landed in France, and has to make it to Paris to help the Resistance in Vichy France. From the Sunday Times best-selling author of the Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley's The Light Behind the Window is a breathtaking and intense story of love, war and, above all, forgiveness. The reader can really feel the nightmare that life became for the French people during WWII and the enduring power of love. After the death of her glamorous, distant mother, Emilie de la Martiniéres finds herself alone in the world – and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home.

Her books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Italian Bancarella Prize, the Lovely Books Award in Germany, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Francamente, encontré la historia de Emilie un tanto floja y poco creíble, con un personaje central muy endeble y sin consistencia, mientras que la de Connie y el entorno de la Francia ocupada me pareció bastante mejor descrito, además de más interesante. Jetzt beim zweiten Mal hatte ich echt Spaß beim Lesen und wollte mehr �As Emilie unravels the story, she too embarks on her own journey of discovery, realising that the ch teau may provide clues to her own difficult past and finally unlock the future. A young office clerk, Constance Carruthers, is drafted into the SOE, arriving in occupied Paris during the climax of the conflict. Don’t misunderstand me, the author adds what she thinks is complexity to most of the characters but it doesn’t work. Forced to surrender her identity and all ties to her homeland, Constance finds herself drawn into a complex web of deception, the repercussions of which will affect generations to come . The heroines of [The Light Behind the Window] struggle to master circumstances seemingly beyond their control, a common thread in Riley’s work.

Instead of that nice feeling you get when a plot turns a corner and all is revealed, what I felt was right, told you so. It felt like I read the same conversation over and over again, there was no differentiating between characters; they all seem to posses the same speech pattern and the same way of articulation, even a 13 year old compared with an 80+ year old.Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and continue to strike an emotional chord with cultures all around the world.

Pero su previsibilidad y el arranque un tanto lento de la trama hacen que, finalmente, me decida por un tres. But in this, Sebastian is so obviously full of shit and so bland, and Emilie is so bland and seems so stupid for falling for it, that I just felt bored waiting for the inevitable revelation. You really get the characters and feel their emotions, The narrator read it so well too, highly recommended. Constance is (supposedly) trained by SOE but as soon as she gets to France she can't be involved with SOE contacts in any way.I loved her detail about the French and English countryside and absolutely loved the specifics of the ancestry of Emilee's family.