The Girl From Vichy

The Girl From Vichy had been on my most anticipated reads. I fell in love with Andie Newton's beautiful book, The Girl I Left Behind. I still think about that book to this very day and remember how much I enjoyed it. I am probably going to re-read right away because I am definitely going to have som......more

Thanks to NetGalley, Aria and Andie Newton for my copy of: The Girl from Vichy. 1942 France. Adèle Ambeh's father has arranged a marriage for her to Gerard Baudoin a member of the hated Vichy police, as her wedding day approaches to the collaborator she’s filled with dread and her mother organizes fo......more

In 1942, Adele from Vichy hides out at convent in Lyon, fleeing arranged marriage by her father. At convent she helps with girls that need “rehabilitation,” the ones who “had strayed in God’s eyes.” – During a war time you’re concerned with that? Adele later at convent gets involved with Resistance s......more

Last year I fell in love with Andie Newton's debut novel, The Girl I Left Behind, and now she's back with her sophomore novel, The Girl from Vichy, which proved to be just as amazing! The story follows Adèle Ambeh, a young woman that lives with her family in Vichy, France. At this time in history, Fr......more

The Girl from Vichy by Andie Newton is an excellent historical fiction novel about some of the Resistance members that lived in the “free zone” or the southern part of France during WWII that was under the Petain administration (aka a front for German occupation). It was interesting to read about so......more