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Every Time We Say Goodbye
Historical fiction
Every Time We Say Goodbye
After critics destroy her latest London play in 1955, Vivien Lowry accepts work as a script doctor at Rome's Cinecitta Studios. The international film crew is making a controversial picture about a female Italian Resistance fighter while church censorship and political pressure shape what can be shown. Vivien also pursues the unresolved fate of her fiancé, who disappeared in Italy during the war. Glamorous yet reflective, this novel suits readers who enjoy postwar Rome, classic cinema, expatriate communities, women in the arts, and mysteries rooted in wartime memory and the stories institutions suppress.
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Postwar grief and trauma; murder and kidnapping; torture; rape references; antisemitism and xenophobia; war/genocide references; infidelity; parental and child death.
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