Meg Waite Clayton – WWII Best Seller

Today on The Joys of Binge Reading Meg Waite Clayton, international bestselling author of The Last Train to London, returns with another haunting wartime story–The Postmistress of Paris. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and on Binge Reading this week, Meg talks about her latest acclaimed wartime story set in the early days of the Nazi Occupation of France. It’s a haunting love story of high stakes danger and incomparable courage, based on the true story of a young American heiress who helped artists hunted by the Nazis escape war torn France. Download Free Books As usual, we’ve got free books for you–a selection of historical romance - a group promo from 50 top authors, plus a four-book French mystery box set from Lise McLendon–Books 1–4 in her popular Bennett sisters series HISTORIC ROMANCE FOR FREE Download free books here: https://books.bookfunnel.com/freehistoricalromancemay/2drvxuczu And Lise McLendon four-book French mystery box set from Lise McLendon–Books 1–4 in her popular Bennett sisters series here: https://amzn.to/383Egji free french mysteries And don’t forget you can get exclusive bonus content – like hearing Meg’s answers to the Getting-to-Know-You Five Quickfire Questions – by becoming a Binge Reading on Patreon supporter for the cost of less than a cup of coffee a month. Details at www.patreon.com/thejoysofbingereading SUPPORT BINGE READING ON PATREON Links for this episode can be found at: Links to this episode can be found at: Mary Jayne Gold: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-evanston-heiress-inspires-novel-tt-1130-20211130-n36mbdjpnvbqhd27acvs253aka-story.html Mary Jayne Gold:  Oral History interview at the Holocaust memorial Museum site.:  https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn513492 Crossroads Marseilles, 1940: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1245926.Crossroads_Marseilles_1940 Varian Fry: https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/varian-fry The Last Train To London: https://www.megwaiteclayton.com/books/the-last-train-to-london/ The Writer’s Lab: https://thewriterslab.nyc/ Thrifty Umrigar Honor: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56271394 Karen Joy Fowler: Booth https://www.karenjoyfowler.com/ Purchasing Meg’s books in Australia and New Zealand: And elsewhere: Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1102395.Meg_Waite_Clayton Where to find Meg Waite Clayton: Website: https://www.megwaiteclayton.com/Email: https://www.megwaiteclayton.com/contact/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/novelistmegTwitter:  https://twitter.com/MegWClayton What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to the show notes in The Joys of Binge Reading.com for important mentions.But now, here’s Meg,  Introducing author Meg Waite Clayton Best selling international author of historic fiction Meg Waite Clayton Jenny Wheeler: Hello there Meg, and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us. Meg Waite Clayton: Jenny, it’s so delightful to be here. Thank you for sharing your time with me. Jenny Wheeler: This latest book you've recently published, The Postmistress of Paris, has received the most amazing reception. You've got a whole host of international reviewers who are all eagerly anticipating it and hyping it up before it even hits the stands. That's a wonderful place to be in, but you did have quite a good apprenticeship to get there, didn't you? Meg Waite Clayton: I did. This is novel number eight. Here in the United States, it’s the first one that's been reviewed by the New York Times, so that's my long apprenticeship. But I wouldn't have it any other way. It's been a lovely run and a lovely career and I feel like it keeps growing in a lovely way. Jenny Wheeler: That’s wonderful. The central character of the Postmistress is Nanée. She is a wealthy American who stays on in France after war is declared in 1939,