Inspired by the incredible true story of Lee Miller, Vogue model turned one of the first female war photojournalists**, the new novel by the bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress**
Paris, 1942: When Jessica May's successful modelling career in Manhattan is abruptly cut short, she is assigned to the war in Europe as a photojournalist for Vogue. But when she arrives the army men make her life as difficult as possible. Three friendships change that: journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules, paratrooper Dan Hallworth takes her to places to shoot pictures and write stories that matter, and a little girl, Victorine, who has grown up in a field hospital, shows her love. But success comes at a price.
France, 2005: Australian curator D'Arcy Hallworth arrives at a beautiful chateau to manage a famous collection of photographs. What begins as just another job becomes far more disquieting as D'Arcy uncovers the true identity of the mysterious photographer -- and realises that she is connected to D'Arcy's own mother, Victorine.
Crossing a war-torn Europe from Italy to France, The French Photographer is a story of courage, family and forgiveness, by the bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress and A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald.
PRAISE FOR NATASHA LESTER
'Lester deftly darts from Paris in 1941 to New York' The Australian Women's Weekly
'Weaves real characters, events, places and a love of fashion into her captivating tale' Herald Sun
'A fantastically engrossing story. I loved it' KELLY RIMMER
