Escape to Florence: A WWII Saga of Secrets and Fate in Florence - Couverture souple

Devereaux, Kat

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0063321319 ISBN 13 : 9780063321311

Editeur : Harper Paperbacks, 2023

Synopsis

"A powerful debut. . . . This richly textured, well-researched novel is about two women whose lives are inextricably intertwined  – one a young Italian resistance fighter during WWII, and the other, a woman fleeing her abusive marriage, inspired by her grandmother’s last wish. This moving page-turner is a love letter to Florence - past and present - and filled with all the juicy elements that hist-fic lovers will celebrate: love, passion, history, courage, secrets and second chances."  — Lisa Barr, New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire

Moving between the Second World War and the present, an exhilarating debut novel in the vein of Jennifer Robson, Kate Quinn, and Natasha Lester, about two women, decades apart, whose fates converge in Florence, Italy.

Only fourteen, Stella Infuriati is the youngest member of her town’s resistance network during World War II. Risking torture and death, she relays messages, supplies, and weapons to partisan groups in the Tuscan hills. Her parents have no idea, consumed instead by love and fear for their beloved son, Achille, a courier and unofficial mechanic for a communist partisan brigade.

Then, after 1945, Stella seemingly vanishes from the records. Her name and story are overshadowed by the tragic death of her brother—until a young writer arrives in Tuscany in the spring of 2019, uncovering long-buried secrets.

Fleeing an emotionally abusive marriage and a lonely life on an isolated estate, Tori MacNair has come to Florence, the beautiful city her grandmother taught her to love, to build a new life. As she digs into her family history with the help of Marco, a handsome lawyer, Tori starts to uncover secrets of the past—truths that stretch back decades, to a young woman who risked everything to save her world . . .

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kat Devereaux was born near Edinburgh, and has lived in the United States, Russia, France, Chile, Germany, and Italy. She now lives in the beautiful Czech city of Prague. She is a historian by training and an enthusiast by nature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0063321319
• ISBN 13: 9780063321311
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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