The Painter of Hidden Children

One woman saved them. Her family called her a traitor. Now, the truth will finally come to light.

Paris, 1938. Claire Weinberg came to study art at the École des Beaux-Arts. She found Valérie, cynical, fearless, fiercely loyal, and together they discovered a city of beauty and possibility. Then the Germans came, and the two friends were torn apart.

Beaujolais, 1943. Claire has turned her family’s crumbling manor into a secret refuge for Jewish children whose parents have been taken. She draws with them, plays piano in the dark, and builds a fragile world of beauty inside walls surrounded by horror. When a cultured SS commander takes a dangerous interest in the painter above the valley, Claire must use the only weapon she has, her art. But a teenage boy is watching from the shadows, and what he sees will haunt him for fifty years.

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