“Thematically, we're both [with Kristin Hannah ] interested in women's experiences and women's stories, and until now, you've mostly dealt with how it feels to be a wife/mother/sister/name your poison in today's world. But this story [The Nightingale ] is told from the perspective of two sisters during the German occupation of France in WWII.” WorldFeelsTwoStoriesTodayMotherNamesWifePerspectiveFrancePoisonOccupationWwiiNightingalesToday's WorldTwo SistersWife Mother Author:Megan Chance
“With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.” WritingYearsIdeasDifferentSeemsSurfaceFrightenedKickingNightingales Author:Megan Chance
“To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.” BookRealCharacterHonestChangedSurpriseFinishedBeing HonestNightingales Author:Megan Chance
“[ The Nightingale ]ended up being a huge undertaking - a daunting amount of research on a subject that many people know intimately, a country I had not yet been to when I first started planning the book, an entire war.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBookWarCountrySubjectsHugeAmountResearchPlanningUndertakingsNightingales Author:Megan Chance
“In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous, ordinary French women who put their lives on the line to save others. It was really inspirational.” BookEndsWholeReadingLinesResearchOrdinaryCourageousNightingalesFrench Woman Author:Megan Chance
“I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the setting.” ThinkingCharacterMovingNovelSettingSettingsMatureNightingales Author:Megan Chance
“I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].” ImportantStoriesPiecesHeroDramaticNightingales Author:Megan Chance
“The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.” BraveForgottenResistanceHomageNightingalesAstounded Author:Megan Chance
“In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago: When would I, as a wife and mother, risk my life - and more importantly, my child's life - to save a stranger? That question is at the very heart of The Nightingale. I hope that everyone who reads the novel will ask themselves the question.” YearsHeartChildrenTodayMotherAsksFoundNovelWifeRiskResearchYears AgoStrangerMy ChildrenOverwhelmingRelevantSeventiesConsumedNightingalesWives And Mothers Author:Megan Chance
