Even leaving those variations out, though, and deleting any instances where the same book appeared more than once in the search results, the number of The _’s Daughter books out there is truly staggering. So I didn’t include The Murderer’s Daughters, for example, or The Kitchen Daughter. I was careful to collect only books that adhered to the “The _’s Daughter” formula. How much time? A lot, because I’m studying a foreign language, and cutting and pasting text is exactly the kind of mindless activity that can be done while I’m listening to language podcasts. Afterward I spent some time copying and pasting all instances of The _’s Daughter into an Excel spreadsheet. I was curious to see how many of these books there actually are, so I did a search for books with “The” and “Daughter” in their titles on Goodreads. I’m Facebook friends with the authors of The Hummingbird’s Daughter, The Baker’s Daughter, The Calligrapher’s Daughter, and The Murderer’s Daughters, and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. A recent issue of Shelf Awareness had ads for both The Sausage Maker’s Daughters and The Witch’s Daughter. Seriously, once you start noticing them, they’re everywhere. Our literature seems to hold a parallel obsession with vanishing, which involves of course any number of titles involving the words “Disappear” or “Vanishing” or “Lost.”īut no trend that I’ve ever noticed has seemed quite so pervasive as the daughter phenomenon. There was a time a few years back when it seemed like vast numbers of books were being published on the subject of secret lives, as in The Secret Life of Bees, The Secret Lives of Buildings, The Secret Lives of Words, etc. “Haunting, action-packed, and compelling.Titles have a way of coming in waves. The Nightingale is an enthralling novel that will take you to the lives of courageous women during the WW2 war.In the list of Kristin Hannah’s books in order of popularity, this novel definitely deserves the top spot.
But, when the unexpected happens she finds her way to an underground group and fights against the Nazis. Meanwhile, Isabelle continues to be disobedient with everything and falls in love with the young man, Gaetan. Soon after, in her husband’s absence, more hardships followed her. Vianne always dreamed of leading a quiet country life with her husband and children but once the war started her dreams are shattered, as Antoine is obliged to fight in WW2. The story primarily follows two sisters- Vianne, the good sister and Isabelle, the rebel.
This New York Times bestseller and Good Reads choice 2015 winner, is a memorable tale of courage and hardships of women amidst the World War- the untold story of the home front.
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