'The rarest of reading experiences, offering a view both wrenching and luminous of how love pushes us past what we're capable of, and somehow - impossibly - reclaims us when we're long past saving. Utterly magnificent' Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun

A grey dawn in 1943: on a street in Rome, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single moment.

In that moment two lives change for ever.

'As gripping as any thriller . . . crammed with the sort of heart-stopping, heart-breaking scenes that brought a lump to the throat of even this jaded reviewer. Really, really good' Daily Mail

'A big, generous and absorbing piece of storytelling, fearless, witty and full of flair' Guardian