Completely engaging story in which past and present intersect. In present time, a young woman experiences a tragic loss, setting her on the path of investigating the past of her late friend. Unique perspective on the war in France unfolds a beautiful, wrenching story.

I honestly could tell by the writing of the first 2 chapters that it wouldn't be a good fit for our box and had to put it down. I may read it again in the future!

Could not put it down. Kept me enthralled all night. A must read

Wow, just wow! My feelings are all over the place. Review to follow after I get myself together.

Days later: I took quite awhile to think about this book, partially because I was sick, but mostly because I wanted to spend some time to rethink some of my preconceptions. I found this book extremely readable and beautifully written, but it opened my eyes to the importance of the French Resistance in France during WWII. I now want to read more about that portion of the war.

This book made me curious, which is very important. It made me want to know more about what I was reading, to dig deeper into a subject that I had spend very little time getting to know and that is a good thing!

The story itself is very well told and very readable. I will be re-reading this book. I have recommended it to numerous friends (including my husband). Thank you to NetGalley and Troubador Publishing for the opportunity to read this amazing book!

I didn't finish this one. The prologue was intriguing and the suicide in the first chapter was compelling but the storytelling wasn't very good. Connie and Matt meeting over a tragedy and becoming instant friends was weird. It just didn't work for me.

This is a mix of a slightly deeper chick lit and also a gripping story of "Horizontal Collaborators"
There is a world of bordellos that the heroine, a Resistance fighter infiltrated.

For the current trend the gripping story has to be sliced into alternate chapters, which is really frustrating, I'd have preferred to read it as a complete story - with a beginning and end (if it must) with the present day protagonist delving into the past and finally resolving it. The modern part too is quite interesting and very well written. It's just that I think that it deserved to be read in an better way

I would like to thank NetGalley and Troubador Publishing for the copy of "The Seven Letters" by Jan Harvey. This was an incredible story of a brave young French woman, that was a part of the underground resistance during WWII, and placed in a bordello in Paris, gathering Nazi secrets. A parallel story also takes place during current times in England, as a woman and her friends, in order to achieve closure, chase the details and try to piece together this under-appreciated and often misunderstood contribution of woman to the Nazi resistance. A wonderfully written novel, as well as a beautiful tribute to the ones that sacrificed everything for the greater good.