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Escape to Tuscany
- Author
- Kat Devereaux
- Narrator
- Tessa Battaiotto, Esther Wane
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 17 August 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Only fourteen, Stella Infuriati is the youngest member of her town's resistance network during World War II. Risking imprisonment 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 brigade fighting the fascists.
Then, after 1945, Stella seemingly vanishes from the records, her name and story 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 McNair has come to Florence, the beautiful city her grandmother, Margaret, 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....
Perfect for fans of Patricia Wilson, Carol Kirkwood and Lucinda Riley.
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Details
- Author
- Kat Devereaux
- Narrator
- Tessa Battaiotto, Esther Wane
- Duration
- 9 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 August 2023
- ISBN
- 9781837937790
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Second World War fiction
Synopsis
An escapist romance with a historical twist - moving between contemporary Florence and wartime Tuscany, among the Italian Resistance fighters. Only fourteen, Stella Infuriati is the youngest member of her town's resistance network during World War II. Risking imprisonment 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 brigade fighting the fascists.Then, after 1945, Stella seemingly vanishes from the records, her name and story 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 McNair has come to Florence, the beautiful city her grandmother, Margaret, 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....Perfect for fans of Patricia Wilson, Carol Kirkwood and Lucinda Riley.
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