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Author Devereaux, Kat, author.

Title Escape to Florence : a novel / Kat Devereaux.

Publication Info. New York : Harper, 2023.
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 95th Street Adult Fiction  F DEVEREAU    AVAILABLE
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Description 264 pages ; 21 cm
Summary "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 . . ." --publisher's website
Subject Women guerrillas -- Italy -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Italy -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Italy -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Abused wives -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Italy -- History -- German occupation, 1943-1945 -- Fiction.
Florence (Italy) -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780063321311 (pbk.)
0063321319 (pbk.)
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