Click image to hear La Marseillaise (the french national anthem) in 1916.
Good Reads
*****
Barnes & Nobles
*****
Personal Review
*****
As an avid historical fiction reader, I believe that The Girl You Left Behind is a superb novel, it not only is able to tell one story but, two. The two characters stories intertwine in a sudden development and show that even after decades people can be brought together by fate. The dynamic that Moyes is able to create with the switch from 1916 to 2006 adds an excitement to the novel. As one reads one of the character's story you being to wonder about the other and when they come converge. This novel brings a powerful message about the war and the stories behind the belongings people who were victims of German imprisonment camps left. If I were to read this again I would be less surprised by how Moyes follows a back and forth dynamic between Sophie and Liv, it beginnings with Sophie and leaves her story with a cliffhanger, reader's must be patient because it must play out in order to make sense, and all of the background that is given is necessary for the story to progress into a riveting novel. I highly recommended this novel to anybody it could be categorized as a Romance but I believe the novel to have a depth more about what love makes you do, rather than two people falling in love.