Ghosts Of Rome

WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'As thrilling, beautiful and sensational a novel as you'll read this year or any year' Sunday TimesFebruary 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome.Inside the war-torn city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini works for the band of Escape Line activists known as the Choir . Her mission is to smuggle Allied soldiers to safety, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann.During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is he an ally or an imposter? His fate will come to put the whole Escape Line at risk.Meanwhile, Hauptmann s attention has landed on the Contessa. As his fascination grows, she is pulled into a dangerous game with him one where the consequences could be lethal. A superb testament to humankind s bravery and resilience...moving and immersive Guardian, Books of the Year Tremendous and terrifying Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times Books of the Year A stellar piece of storytelling Daily Mail'Not just a wartime thriller, but a meditation on how we remember, how we resist and how, even in the darkest times, humanity endures' New York Times