Kat Devereaux

Mar 18, 2024 | chicklit.nl | Kat Devereaux

Terug naar Toscane van Kat Devereaux is de debuutroman van deze Britse schrijfster. Het boek is in het Engels uit onder twee verschillende titels: Escape to Toscany en Escape to Florence en kwam uit in 2023. In het Nederlands is het nu vertaald, simpelweg als Terug naar Toscane. Victoria McNair is jong getrouwd met Duncan, een Schotse landeigenaar.

Sep 7, 2023 | simcoe.com | Kat Devereaux |Stephen Greco |Denise Mina |Joshunda Sanders

Escape to FlorenceBy Kat DevereauxHarper Paperbacks, 272 pages, $23.99 In 2019, freelance writer-protagonist Tori MacNair leaves her emotionally abusive marriage when she receives a bequest from her grandmother Margaret and decides to spend the money living in Florence, the city her grandmother taught her to love. There, she begins to discover truths about her family history that alter her understanding of the past.

Sep 7, 2023 | thespec.com | Kat Devereaux |Stephen Greco |Denise Mina |Joshunda Sanders

Escape to FlorenceBy Kat Devereaux Already a Subscriber? Sign in Harper Paperbacks, 272 pages, $23.99 In 2019, freelance writer-protagonist Tori MacNair leaves her emotionally abusive marriage when she receives a bequest from her grandmother Margaret and decides to spend the money living in Florence, the city her grandmother taught her to love. There, she begins to discover truths about her family history that alter her understanding of the past.

Jul 5, 2023 | redcarpetcrash.com | Kat Devereaux

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.

Jun 28, 2023 | thetablet.co.uk | Kat Devereaux

Features: Aldo Mei and Francesco Repetto‘Be the keeper of his memory’: Aldo Mei risked his life to save victims of the Nazis. photo: Wikimedia CommonsIn the summer of 1944, Don Aldo Mei was arrested after celebrating Mass in his parish church of Fiano. Charged with helping Jews, deserters and partisans, he was forced to dig his own grave and then shot by an SS firing squad. What drove him and other Italian priests to join the anti-Nazi resistance?