Member Review

I’ve been following this wartime series set in Paris which tells the story of a Parisian family during this dark time period in history. This book is about Gigi, a ballerina in the 1940s and Lily who lives in 2011. Lily’s mother suffers a stroke and she reveals via some old papers that she once had a twin sister who disappeared during the war. She has never stopped searching for her and Lily decides to investigate and try and locate her long lost aunt hoping that she is still alive.
I really enjoyed the alternate sections of the book, Gigi’s story, her resistance work and her romance with Olivier during the war and Lily’s life in the present as she struggles with a failing marriage and a quest to find out her mother’s background and family.
As ever with this author, the characters really came to life and the story was so compelling that I couldn’t put the book down. I felt the ending resolved some issues but also left me wanting to read more about the Paris Sisters.
The research about wartime Paris was very meticulously carried out so that the setting and the almost historical characters such as Josephine Duval ( Josephine Baker) made the novel all the more authentic. The bravery of those caught up in such awful times, was breathtaking and very inspirational.
I definitely recommend “The Secret Twins of Paris” and also the previous books in the series although all can be read as stand alone novels.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for my advance copy.