The Race for Paris

The Race for Paris

Author: Meg Waite Clayton
Desc: 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 lives Normandy 1944. To cover the fighting in France Jane a reporter for the Nashville Banner and Liv an Associated Press photographer have already had to endure enormous danger and frustrating obstacles—including strict military regulations limiting what women correspondents can do. Even so Liv wants more. Encouraged by her husband the editor of a New York newspaper she’s determined to be the first photographer to reach Paris with the Allies and capture its freedom from the Nazis. However 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 over. Based on daring real-life female reporters on the front lines of history like Margaret Bourke-White Lee Miller and Martha Gellhorn—and with cameos by other famous faces of the time—The 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.