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'Manhattan, Paris, 1942: When Jessica May's successful modelling career is abruptly cut short, she is assigned to the war in Europe as a photojournalist for Vogue. But when she arrives the army men make her life as difficult as possible. Three friendships change that: journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules, paratrooper Dan Hallworth takes her to places to shoot pictures and write stories that matter, and a little girl, Victorine, who has grown up in a field hospital, shows her love. But success comes at a price.
'France, 2005: Australian curator D'Arcy Hallworth arrives at a beautiful chateau to manage a famous collection of photographs. What begins as just another job becomes far more disquieting as D'Arcy uncovers the true identity of the mysterious photographer -- and realises that she is connected to D'Arcy's own mother, Victorine.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Inspired by Lee Miller.
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The French Photographer, published as The Paris Orphan in the US, made the New York Times Best Seller List at #14. (4 October 2019)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille.
- Also dyslexic edition
- Also sound recording.
Awards
- 2020 winner FosterGrant Reading Glasses Romantic Novel of the Year Award — Historical Romantic Novel of the Year
- 2019 finalist Australian Romance Readers Awards — Favourite Historical Romance
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cFrance,cWestern Europe, Europe,
- 1942
- 2005