Eventually, Antoine is called to fight, and Vianne is left home alone with Sophie. Vianne is now estranged from her father because of how the war impacted him. Vianne’s father, Julien Rossignol, fought in World War I, and she knows what war can do to the human soul. Although they live an idyllic life, Vianne and Antoine are worried because war is on the horizon. The setting is Carriveau, France, a provincial town, where Vianne Mauriac lives with her husband, Antoine, and her daughter, Sophie. Suddenly, the novel goes back in time to August 1939. Her son, Julien Mauriac, asks her about the objects, but she is evasive. It is currently 1995, and the narrator lives on the Oregon Coast. The Nightingale begins with an unnamed narrator looking at some old objects in her attic that date back to World War II.
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