From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson--author of
Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France--comes a lush
historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an
ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on
the Second World War, and to start a new life an ocean away from her
past.
In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton
gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff
writer for Picture Weekly newsmagazine in London. She jumps at the
chance, for it's an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to
start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble
origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never
imagined.
Although most of Ruby's new colleagues welcome her, a few resent her
presence, not only as an American but also as a woman. She is just
beginning to find her feet, to feel at home in a country that is so
familiar yet so foreign, when the bombs begin to fall.
As the nightly horror of the Blitz stretches unbroken into weeks and
months, Ruby must set aside her determination to remain an objective
observer. When she loses everything but her life, and must depend upon
the kindness of strangers, she learns for the first time the depth and
measure of true friendship--and what it is to love a man who is burdened
by secrets that aren't his to share.
Goodnight from London, inspired in part by the wartime experiences of
the author's own grandmother, is a captivating, heartfelt, and
historically immersive story that readers are sure to embrace.
