One good thing

Georgia Hunter, 1978-

Large print - 2025

"1941, Italy. Lili and Esti have been best friends since meeting at the university in Ferrara; when Esti gives birth to the adorable Theo, they become as close as sisters. But when Germany invades northern Italy, they will soon find themselves in occupied territory. Esti, always the fiercer of the two, convinces Lili to flee to a convent in Florence, where they'll be responsible for guarding war orphans and forging identification papers with the Resistance in the dead of night. When a brutal gang descends on the convent, a critically wounded Esti asks Lili to take a much bigger step: Go on the run with Theo. Protect him while Esti can't. Terrified to travel without her brave friend, Lili sets out on a harrowing journey throug...h the bombed-out villages and cities of Italy, doing everything she can to keep Theo safe. A tale of friendship, motherhood, survival, and unexpected romance, in One Good Thing Lili will learn how love for another person can be a reason to stay alive"--

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Subjects
Genres
large print books
Historical fiction
Novels
Large print books
Romans
Livres en gros caractères
Published
New York, NY : Random House Large Print [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Georgia Hunter, 1978- (author)
Edition
First large print edition
Physical Description
556 pages (large print) : illustration ; 24 cm
ISBN
9798217067480
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Hunter follows her bestseller We Were the Lucky Ones with a stirring novel of bravery and sacrifice in WWII Italy. Esti and Lili, two 20-something Jewish women, resist fascism and anti-Semitism by forging IDs and helping to shelter orphaned refugee children. When Esti is badly beaten by a pro-Mussolini gang, she urges Lili to take Esti's three-year-old son, Theo, and run. Avoiding trains, where they would risk arrest, Lili and Theo trek mostly on foot across Italy. In Rome, she meets Thomas, an escaped American POW disguised in a German uniform, and helps him search for his regiment. Thomas and Theo take to each other immediately, and Lili slowly realizes she's in love with the American. All along, she writes letters to Esti and to her own father, Massimo, who has fled to Switzerland. Lili and Massimo reunite, but she never hears back from Esti, who is rumored to have been sent to Auschwitz. Hunter movingly depicts the bond between Lili and the precocious Theo, and ends the novel on a hopeful note without flinching from the war's horrors. Fans of Hunter's previous book and the miniseries based on it will be pleased. Agent: Brettne Bloom, Book Group. (Mar.)

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