Win ONE of FIVE copies of The Tuscan Contessa
Win ONE of FIVE copies of The Tuscan Contessa from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author Dinah Jefferies due to be released in Paperback on 23rd July 2020.
Dinah Jefferies was born in Malaysia and moved to England at the age of nine. She has worked in education, lived in a commune and exhibited work as an artist. The Tuscan Countess is Dinah’s seventh stunning new novel; her previous novels, The Separation, The Tea Planter’s Wife, The Silk Merchant’s Daughter, Before the Rain, The Sapphire Widow and the Missing Sister are all Sunday Times bestsellers, published by Penguin.
‘Dinah Jefferies has a remarkable gift for conjuring up another time and place with lush descriptions, full of power and intensity’ Kate Furnivall
ABOUT THE BOOK
ONE WAR. TWO WOMEN. WILL THEY BE ABLE TO SAVE THE ONES THEY LOVE?
A sweeping new novel from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of The Tea Planter’s Wife, available for pre-order now
In 1943, Contessa Sofia de’ Corsi’s peaceful Tuscan villa among the olive groves is upturned by the sudden arrival of German soldiers. Desperate to fight back, she agrees to shelter a wounded British radio engineer in her home, keeping him hidden from her husband Lorenzo – knowing that she is putting all of their lives at risk.
When Maxine, an Italian-American working for the resistance, arrives on Sofia’s doorstep, the pair forge an uneasy alliance. Feisty, independent Maxine promised herself never to fall in love. But when she meets a handsome partisan named Marco, she realizes it’s a promise she can’t keep…
Before long, the two women find themselves entangled in a dangerous game with the Nazis. Will they be discovered? And will they both be able to save the ones they love?
For your chance to win one of these five copies hot off the press, enter below!
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So excited for this one
Even if the holiday is at home this year!
Prefer a book to ebooks.
My wife would love to add this novel to her bedroom stash of books...!
Looks like a good read.
Definitely got my fingers crossed