Colette Marceau has been a jewel thief since she was a child, taught the family trade by her mother, Annabel, who would only use the things she stole for the benefit of others. When World War II came to Paris, Annabel started supporting the French Resistance with the jewelry she took, with one exception: a pair of interlocking bracelets that she reclaimed on behalf of a friend whose jewels were stolen as she was sent to Auschwitz. Before being captured herself, Annabel sewed the bracelets into the hems of her daughters' nightgowns, and while Colette's sister and the bracelet were lost, Colette held onto her bracelet, hoping to someday bring them back together. Decades later and an ocean away, Colette finds the bracelet in a museum exhibition of jewelry and embarks on a plan to reunite the pair and return them to the family to whom they once belonged.
This was a quick and engaging tale of a fascinating (and sadly fictional) woman, and I loved the vast majority of the book. However, the end felt a little to neat, given everything that had happened to the characters before.
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