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Far From Home
- Author
- Danielle Steel
- Narrator
- Jim Frangione
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 13 March 2025
- Run Time
- 6 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Then her world falls apart. She receives word that Gregor was part of Operation Valkyrie and a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in Poland, and has been shot as a traitor. Now—holding a French passport handed to her by another high-level collaborator, she is whisked away from Paris under cover of darkness for her own safety.
As the Allies storm the beaches, she goes into hiding in a small village in Normandy under an assumed name, unable to contact her adult children. There, she forms a friendship with Sebastien Renaud, whose wife and daughter were deported in 1941, and who eventually reveals himself as a forger in the Resistance. As war rages on, Arielle and Sebastien work for the Resistance and hold out for the time when they can search for their loved ones.
In Far from Home, Danielle Steel captures the devastation of World War II with a sweeping story of family love transcending impossible odds.
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Details
- Author
- Danielle Steel
- Narrator
- Jim Frangione
- Duration
- 6 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 March 2025
- ISBN
- 9781004185214
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Historical romance, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction
Synopsis
In July 1944, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris. Half-French, half-German, she is happy to be back in France, where she her husband, Gregor, a retired colonel, will join her soon from Germany. Arielle and Gregor have thus far been able to hide their private opposition to Hitler.Then her world falls apart. She receives word that Gregor was part of Operation Valkyrie and a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in Poland, and has been shot as a traitor. Now—holding a French passport handed to her by another high-level collaborator, she is whisked away from Paris under cover of darkness for her own safety.As the Allies storm the beaches, she goes into hiding in a small village in Normandy under an assumed name, unable to contact her adult children. There, she forms a friendship with Sebastien Renaud, whose wife and daughter were deported in 1941, and who eventually reveals himself as a forger in the Resistance. As war rages on, Arielle and Sebastien work for the Resistance and hold out for the time when they can search for their loved ones.In Far from Home, Danielle Steel captures the devastation of World War II with a sweeping story of family love transcending impossible odds.
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