A unique historical fiction book that is told through multiple women as they try to survive World War II and its impact on the French people. While more than two women take turns telling this story, there are two main women who have very different lives and survive the war in very different ways. Without spoiling, it was so hard to read one woman's and think she was thriving and then see events happening in the other and see another side of the coin. They both were doing what they could to endure the war and it was heartbreaking to read it all.

Without quotation marks and dates, this book was hard to read as I didn't quite know easily that these women were sharing their stories, but were at different moments in time during the war. Each woman had an experience and without even stepping foot in a concentration camp, this book was hard to read to see what women went through at this time. This book was stark both in its physical editing and the description of the time and place.