"The Girl You Left Behind" by Jojo Moyes Paris, 1916. Sophie Lefèvre
must keep her family safe while her adored husband, Édouard, fights
at the front. When their town falls to the Germans in the midst of
World War I, Sophie is forced to serve them every evening at her
hotel. From the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie’s
portrait… a dangerous obsession is born, one that will lead Sophie
to make a dark and terrible decision. Almost a century later,
Sophie’s portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston, a wedding gift
from her young husband before his sudden death. After a chance
encounter reveals the portrait’s true worth, a battle begins over
its troubled history and Liv’s world is turned upside all over
again. "Jojo Moyes ... asks readers to think in fresh ways about a
morally complex issue. . . . The Girl You Left Behind is strong,
provocative, satisfying fiction." —The Washington Post "'In this
moving paean to daring, determination and perspicacity, Moyes keeps
the reader guessing down to the last hankie." —Los Angeles Times
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