the Making of Marigold McGrath: A Novel London in Second World War

New York City, 1937. Seventeen-year-old Marigold McGrath is coming undone.Her mother is dead. Her father is drawn to dangerous politics. The only place she feels joy is behind a camera - where she can frame the world on her own terms.After a series of her own missteps, she reinvents herself in London: mentored by a celebrated émigré photographer, photographing Kindertransport children, working alongside Edward R. Murrow. She falls in love with Joop, a charming Dutch student, and shrugs off the war gathering around her.Then the Blitz begins.Joop vanishes into the Dutch Resistance. And Marigold - who has always preferred to photograph the world as she wishes it were - must finally decide what kind of woman, and what kind of witness, she is willing to become.A sweeping WWII coming-of-age novel set in wartime London.For readers of Kristin Hannah, Kate Quinn, and SL Beaumont's The War Photographers

Pagina's: 346, Paperback, HTPH Press