An Emotional WW2 Novel of the Milan Resistance, Inspired by True Stories of Courage
Milan, 1943. Eva Cantoni is the photographer of her family's fashion house on Via Montenapoleone, her silver Leica turning silk and light into art. Then the radio announces the armistice, the Germans seize the city, and for a family like hers, every hour becomes borrowed time. While the world she knew collapses, Eva turns her studio into something the occupiers must never find: a place where the right face, captured on the right paper, can become a new name, and a new chance to live.
Milan, 1944. Claudia has the greenest eyes Eva has ever photographed, and the steadiest nerve in the resistance. As a staffetta, a courier carrying messages, documents, and lives across a city crawling with patrols, she becomes Eva's partner in an operation hidden in plain sight. But at Hotel Regina, an SS officer named Reinitz is hunting the forger behind the photographs, with the patience of a man solving a simple equation.
Milan, 1999. After burying her mother, Chloe arrives in Italy with a lifetime of unanswered silences and a single name: Riva. In a house above Lake Orta, an old woman who survived it all has waited half a century to tell the story of the photographer, and of the secret Eva carried past the end of the war, one that will change everything Chloe believed about who she is.
A heart-wrenching novel about two women who fought back with a camera as their weapon, and the price they paid for every frame.
Perfect for readers of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, Pam Jenoff's The Lost Girls of Paris, and Kate Quinn's The Alice Network.
This is a standalone novel in the Art of Resistance series and can be enjoyed in any order.
Genre: Historical
Milan, 1943. Eva Cantoni is the photographer of her family's fashion house on Via Montenapoleone, her silver Leica turning silk and light into art. Then the radio announces the armistice, the Germans seize the city, and for a family like hers, every hour becomes borrowed time. While the world she knew collapses, Eva turns her studio into something the occupiers must never find: a place where the right face, captured on the right paper, can become a new name, and a new chance to live.
Milan, 1944. Claudia has the greenest eyes Eva has ever photographed, and the steadiest nerve in the resistance. As a staffetta, a courier carrying messages, documents, and lives across a city crawling with patrols, she becomes Eva's partner in an operation hidden in plain sight. But at Hotel Regina, an SS officer named Reinitz is hunting the forger behind the photographs, with the patience of a man solving a simple equation.
Milan, 1999. After burying her mother, Chloe arrives in Italy with a lifetime of unanswered silences and a single name: Riva. In a house above Lake Orta, an old woman who survived it all has waited half a century to tell the story of the photographer, and of the secret Eva carried past the end of the war, one that will change everything Chloe believed about who she is.
A heart-wrenching novel about two women who fought back with a camera as their weapon, and the price they paid for every frame.
Perfect for readers of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, Pam Jenoff's The Lost Girls of Paris, and Kate Quinn's The Alice Network.
This is a standalone novel in the Art of Resistance series and can be enjoyed in any order.
Genre: Historical