From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Village of Secrets, comes the extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during WW2
Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Her book on the French Resistance, Village of Secrets, was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2014. Her most recent book, A Bold and Dangerous Family, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. She lives in London.
Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the
women of the Italian Resistance…an excellent book… She depicts a
tragic fate that is timeless, of dreams forged in adversity,
shattered by collisions with practical politics
*Sunday Times*
Brilliantly and subtly told… The narrative is told with such verve
that I frequently had goosebumps: the men and women known from much
drier history books come alive… a riveting read
*Guardian*
A sensitive and perceptive book founded on an appreciation of the
role women play in any society, at any times. It is sober and
serious, but still an easy read… Moorehead is not afraid to show
how these women used their femininity to become more effective
partisans
*The Times*
The moving finale of a quartet of books on resistance to fascism...
Moorehead conveys the terror with understated power; she is equally
good at conjuring the blurred morality of civil conflict...[and]
the valleys and wild flowers in technicolour detail
*Economist*
In the best book she has so far written, Moorehead corrects this
imbalance with a narrative whose coherence perfectly matches its
author’s admiration for her subjects’ redemptive idealism…
Moorehead needs to be read by Italians themselves. Over here,
meanwhile, she deserves every prize going
*Literary Review*
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