New Morning

From the author of the bestsellers "The Jane Austen Society" and "The Bloomsbury Girls".

The career of playwright Vivien Leigh hangs by a thread — her play in the West End has collapsed due to harsh reviews from critics. The future... in London is bleak, and at the suggestion of her friend Peggy Guggenheim, Vivien departs for Rome to assist with the screenplay of a film. 

In Italy, torn between a tarnished past and a potentially bright future, between the liberation of post-war cinema and the constraints of the Catholic Church that permeate the very soul of the country, Vivien attempts to build a new life. But she confronts a long-buried truth about the recent world war and the secret of what really happened to her fiancé.

"A gripping novel that intertwines the past and the future." — Westport Magazine