In World War II Venice, Stella Jilani is working as a typist for the Nazi war machine, but at night, she works with the Resistance, smuggling secrets and supplies and writing an underground newspaper that recounts what’s really happening on her typewriter. If she’s caught, she will be killed immediately, and she has caught the attention of General Breugal. It would appear that Stella’s time is up. In the present, Luisa Belmont finds Stella’s typewriter in her attic. Something about the old machine pulls at her and Luisa becomes obsessed with finding out its story and the story of the woman who used it. I loved this story, and I think that we are all so taken with stories of World War II is because it was a time when people were honorable and brave. Willing to risk everything to make the right again, something we are in sadly short supply of today

This book really touched me. I felt the main characters were multi-dimensional and really cared about their fate. Very well written and insightful.