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The Boy from the Vines: A Novel of War, Memory, and the Boy Who Wouldn't Look Away
Paperback
Publisher: Nicholas Teeguarden
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When historian Ruth Ward opens a dusty journal in a Paris antique shop, she expects a relic. She finds a life.
The name on the cover is Joseph Durand, a vineyard son in northern France. In early 1940 his entries are ordinary-vines, weather, Mass in Rouen. Then the German army advances, his Jewish best friend's family is hunted, and Joseph's careful hand tightens into a record of cellar-hideouts, midnight marches through the Green Forest, and fishing boats slipping into the Channel under blackout skies.
Decades later, Ruth follows his ink across maps and family memories, cathedral registers, a cemetery under a lone oak. Joseph's routes intersect the stories of people who have quietly lived in his shadow for eighty years. As Ruth's research becomes calling, she must decide how to tell the truth about one ordinary boy without vanishing into his war herself.
Moving between occupied France and the present day, The Boy from the Vines blends historical suspense, slow-burn romance, and questions of faith into a story about:
A young man who refuses to stand by while neighbors are taken.
Families who risk everything to keep others moving through the dark.
A modern woman whose life is rearranged by a stranger's handwriting, and by the people still living with its consequences.
For readers of character-driven WWII fiction like The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See, this novel explores the quiet courage of people whose names rarely make it into the history books-but whose choices change the lives that come after them
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