Sample

Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Last Train from Paris

By: Juliet Greenwood
Narrated by: Sarah Durham
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $27.29

Buy for $27.29

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
activate_WEBCRO358_DT_T2

Publisher's summary

For Iris, each visit to her mother in St Mabon’s Cove, Cornwall has been the same—a serene escape from the city. But today, as she breaths in the salt air on the doorstep of her beloved childhood home, a heavy weight of anticipation settles over her. Iris knows she’s adopted, but any questions about where she came from have always been shut down by her parents, who can’t bear to revisit the past.

Now, Iris can’t stop thinking about what she’s read on the official paperwork: BABY GIRL, FRANCE, 1939 – the year war was declared with Nazi Germany.

When Iris confronts her mother, she hits the same wall of pain and resistance as whenever she mentions the war. That is, until her mother tearfully hands her an old tin of letters, tucked neatly beside a delicate piece of ivory wool.

Retreating to the loft, Iris steels herself to at last learn the truth, however painful it might be. But, as she peels back each layer of history before her, a sensation of dread grows inside her. The past is calling, and its secrets are more intricate and tangled than Iris could ever have imagined.

The year is 1939, and in Paris, France a young woman is about to commit a terrible betrayal…

A beautifully written and addictively compelling historical novel about the terrible choices ordinary people were forced to make in the horrors of World War Two. If you loved The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Alice Network and The Nightingale, you will devour this book.

©2023 Juliet Greenwood (P)2023 Storm Publishing

What listeners say about The Last Train from Paris

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    15
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    12
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    12
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

UNFORGETTABLE!

Juliet Greenwood is a word magician. This is one of those rare stories that linger, enriching one’s understanding of something that has gone before - in this case what life was like for some during the Second World War.
Ms Greenwood knows her stuff. Her characters live on the pages; they struggle, persevere, love - a brilliant read/listen!
I can’t say enough…

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

WOW — WHAT A BOOK! THIS ONE WILL STAY WITH ME FOR A LONG TIME!

This was a FANTASTIC book! I was so engrossed that I finished it in less than 20 hours. I don’t have enough positive descriptors to express how much I enjoyed this book (I will definitely be looking for more by this author — she has a new fan)!

This book is set at the very beginning of WWII, at the first waves of Hitler’s invasion across Europe. Hitler didn’t want to just wipe out the Jews, he wanted to wipe out any one not considered to be perfect.

Sabine is a young French woman; a first time mother who gives birth to beautiful twin girls. The first girl is healthy and perfect, but the second baby is born with a cleft pallet and remains underweight due to feeding problems.

Sabine is terrified that with the German army advancing on Paris, her baby girl will be killed by the Nazis. She arranges for a well-known surgeon to perform surgery on her baby, but the morning she and the baby arrive at the hospital for the surgery, war is officially declared on France and the baby’s surgery is cancelled. Most of the city is trying to evacuate as fast as they can by any means they can.

Sabine’s friend Nora has accompanied Sabine to the hospital to provide support while the baby is undergoing surgery. Since surgery is cancelled, Sabine and her family race Nora to the train station in hopes of getting her home to England before borders begin closing.

Nora manages to be one of the very last passengers allowed on the train before the doors on the final train are closed. In a last minute moment of panic, Sabine runs across the platform, shoves her way through the crowd to reach Nora and then thrusts her baby girl at Nora BEGGING her to take the baby out of France and into England where the baby will be safe from Hitler (that’s before anyone knoabout the bombings that are to come).

Sabine races home to her grandmother and the other twin girl and they hastily pack all they think they might need for a long and difficult trip from France to Switzerland, a neutral country with open borders.

Sabine’s grandmother has been through a war before and insists on hooking up their horses to their wagon. Sabine is horrified to not be taking their car, but soon sees the wisdom in her grandmother’s decision as the pass car after car that has run out of gas and no access to more gas.

It’s not long into their journey before the Nazi’s are on the trail of the evacuees and the race is on to the border.

Nora is not having a smooth trip either. Once off the train, she has to get herself and the baby on a boat across the English Channel — the same Channel that’s being hunted by Nazi ships that want to blow them out of the water.

I almost forgot to mention that Sabine’s husband Emile has a truly evil friend in the German army who convinces Emile to abandon the family and join the Nazis too…

Twists and turns are non-stop during this riveting story. I hated for it to end. Kudos to Ms. Greenwood and also to the narrator who did an absolutely WONDERFUL job bringing all the characters to life.

If you are a fan of WWII fiction like I am, don’t pass on this book. It’s one of the BEST I’ve read.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

twists and turns

Gripping story. Brings the experience of WWII to life. i will look for more books by this author!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

A telling of sacrifice and selflessness in a terrible time

This was a good read and the performance was well done. I felt like I could picture the twins and the other main characters. I felt their despair, love and sacrifice in an uncertain time. It truly is a story of the lengths a mother will go to help and protect her children.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!