Rowena's comment: Definitely recommend - a moving, well researched read.
Paris, 1939; While working at the Louvre, Eliane Dufort falls for talented painter Xavier. But when the Nazis occupy the city, Xavier leaves for England and Eliane must send her sisters to the country. Broken-hearted, she finds herself working with the mysterious Rose Valland on a dangerous secret mission for the French Resistance: to record all the priceless national treasures the Germans are stealing.
Present Day; Desperate to escape her grief, Remy Lang arrives at a stunning private estate on the French Riviera. While working on her vintage fashion business, she discovers a catalogue of artworks stolen during World War II and is shocked to see a painting that hung on her childhood bedroom wall in Sydney. Who is her family, really? And does the Riviera house hold more secrets than Remy is ready to face?
This is the story of the brave women who worked against the Nazis, told by the international bestselling author of The Paris Secret and The French Photographer.
'Lester's densely plotted new novel that leaves you almost as breathless as its colourful tapestry of lead characters' The Australian Women's Weekly.
Fiction: general and literary
Paperback
Natasha Lester
464 pages
H: 153mm W: 234mm Spine: 35mm
Weight: 560 grams