The New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters returns with a moving and powerfully dynamic World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman who together race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their livesNormandy To cover the fighting in France Jane a reporter for the Nashville Banner and Liv an Associated Press photographer have endured enormous danger and frustrating obstaclesincluding strict military regulations limiting what women correspondents can Even so Liv wants moreEncouraged by her husband the editor of a New York newspaper shes determined to be the first photographer to reach Paris with the Allies and capture its freedom from the NazisHowever her Commanding Officer has other ideas about the role of women in the press corps To fulfill her ambitions Liv must go AWOL She persuades Jane to join her and the two women find a guardian angel in Fletcher a British military photographer who reluctantly agrees to escort them As they race for Paris across the perilous French countryside Liv Jane and Fletcher forge an indelible emotional bond that will transform them and reverberate long after the war is overBased on daring real-life female reporters on the front lines of history like Margaret Bourke-White Lee Miller and Martha Gellhornand with cameos by other famous faces of the timeThe Race for Paris is an absorbing atmospheric saga full of drama adventure and passion Combining riveting storytelling with expert literary craftsmanship and thorough research Meg Waite Clayton crafts a compelling resonant read.
