02668cam a2200385 i 4500 23003014 MeVbMML 20241003112412.0 230307s2023 nyu 000 0 eng 2023009041 9780063321311 (softcover) 9780063321328 (ebk) DLC eng rda AJM DLC pcc e-it--- PR6054.E8725 E83 2023 823/.92 23/eng/20230308 Devereaux, Kat, author. 18472 Escape to Florence : a novel / Kat Devereaux. First US edition. New York : Harper, [2023] 264 pages ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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 . . "-- Provided by publisher. Women Italy Fiction. 18473 World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Italy Fiction. 18474 Historical fiction lcgft 129 Novels. lcgft 50 Online version: Devereaux, Kat. Escape to Florence First US edition. New York City : Harper Paperbacks, 2023 9780063321328 (DLC) 2023009042 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK 30103 30103 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-10-03 18.99 0 DEVE 66556 2024-10-03 2024-10-03 BOOK 1