We meet Louise who delivered packages to prisoners of war during World War II and Helaine who was a prisoner in the Levitan department store taken over by the Nazis that housed goods stolen from Jewish homes.
The prisoners had to sort through all of the goods, and the German officers would stop by to buy it.
Louise now has a husband and twin children and works in a secondhand store. One day she found a necklace that she recognized as one similar to the one her friend Franny had.
How did the necklace happen to be in a box with other items that came to the second hand shop with the name Levitan Department Store on the outside?
Could it be the same one?
Louise travels to France and meets her old heartthrob but he disappears and she continues to try to solve the mystery of the necklace and to find out what really happened to her friend Franny.
Will she find out about the necklace or simply find what prisoners housed in the department store endured and were forced to do?
We learn of Heleine’s fate, her eventual arrest because she was Jewish, and her time in the department store.
If you have read Pam Jenoff’s books, you know you will be reading a marvelous, well-researched historical gem with a pull-you-in storyline and with characters you will love and be able to feel their every emotion. 5/5
Thank you to the publisher for a copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
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