Far From Home
A Novel
Danielle Steel
- #1
- New
- York
- Times
- bestselling
- author
- Danielle
- Steel
- delivers
- an
- exciting
- and
- moving
- historical
- novel
- about
- a
- courageous
- wife
- and
- mother
- hiding
- in
- occupied
- France.In
- July
- 1944,
- Arielle
- von
- Auspeck
- arrives
- at
- the
- glamorous
- Hotel
- Ritz
- in
- occupied
- Paris.
- Half
- French,
- half
- German,
- she
- is
- happy
- to
- be
- back
- in
- France,
- where
- her
- husband,
- Gregor,
- a
- retired
- colonel,
- will
- join
- her
- soon
- from
- Germany.
- Arielle
- and
- Gregor
- have
- thus
- far
- been
- able
- to
- hide
- their
- private
- opposition
- to
- Hitler.Then
- her
- world
- falls
- apart.
- She
- receives
- word
- that
- Gregor
- was
- part
- of
- Operation
- Valkyrie,
- a
- failed
- attempt
- to
- assassinate
- Hitler
- in
- Poland,
- and
- has
- been
- shot
- as
- a
- traitor.
- Now,
- holding
- a
- French
- passport
- handed
- to
- her
- by
- another
- high-level
- collaborator,
- she
- is
- whisked
- away
- from
- Paris
- under
- cover
- of
- darkness
- for
- her
- own
- safety.As
- the
- Allies
- storm
- the
- beaches,
- she
- goes
- into
- hiding
- in
- a
- small
- village
- in
- Normandy
- under
- an
- assumed
- name,
- unable
- to
- contact
- her
- adult
- children.
- There,
- she
- forms
- a
- friendship
- with
- Sebastien
- Renaud,
- whose
- wife
- and
- daughter
- were
- deported
- in
- 1941,
- and
- who
- eventually
- reveals
- himself
- as
- a
- forger
- in
- the
- Resistance.
- As
- war
- rages
- on,
- Arielle
- and
- Sebastien
- work
- for
- the
- Resistance
- and
- hold
- out
- for
- the
- time
- when
- they
- can
- search
- for
- their
- loved
- ones.In
- Far
- From
- Home,
- Danielle
- Steel
- captures
- the
- devastation
- of
- World
- War
- II
- with
- a
- sweeping
- story
- of
- family
- love
- that
- transcends
- impossible odds.
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