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🥰Thank you so much to @gallerybooks for the gifted book and @simon.audio for the gifted audiobook!

📖Title: The Stolen Life of Collette Marceau
✍️Author: Kristin Harmel
📅Pub Date: June 17, 2025
⏳Audiobook Length: 11hrs, 13mins
🗣️Audiobook Narrator: Madeleine Maby

💕How was this my first Kristin Harmel book? I have had some sitting on my shelves for years, but never dove in and now I’m seriously regretting not reading her work sooner!

💎Colette Marceau is a modern day Robin Hood who steals from the worst of the worst in order to help those in need. Right? Wrong? It depends who you ask, but she’s just following in her mother’s footsteps the way she was taught. Told in dual timelines between 1942 and 2018, we watch as Colette’s mother, Annabel was arrested by the Germans and how the ramifications of that horrible time still haunt Colette today. Even after 70 years, Colette is still seeking answers and when something from her past shows up unexpectedly, she’s more determined than ever to solve the mysteries associated with it!

🥹I thought the entire story was beautiful, but the ending was so well-executed I was sitting there in stunned silence.

💕After already being an emotional wreck, I read the author’s note that stated she wrote this book while fighting breast cancer, and my awe and respect for her just multiplied! I can’t wait to read whatever she writes next!

📖This would make an excellent book club pick! There is so much here that would lead to deep discussion!

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