In The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen, a daughter’s search for the truth about her father’s service in World War II leads to love between herself and the son of her father’s savior as well as the discovery of a priceless piece of art kept safe from the Germans by her father. Lake Union Publishing, February 20, 2018. She now divides her time between California and Arizona.The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Bowen, Rhys. In 2017, she wrote her first big stand-alone thriller, In Farleigh Field, set in World War Two at an English stately home. She was born in England and married into a family with historic royal connections.
She has won the Agatha Best Novel Award and has been nominated for the Edgar Best Novel. Rhys Bowen is a The New York Times Bestselling Author of the Royal Spyness Series, Molly Murphy Mysteries, and Constable Evans. We are tested and we survive, and life will be good again. When the world has gone mad, we must help each other when we can.Īll is well. Joanna soon discovers that some would prefer the past be left undisturbed, but she has come too far to let go of her father’s secrets now …
Still dealing with the emotional wounds of her own personal trauma, Joanna embarks on a healing journey to Tuscany to understand her father’s history-and maybe come to understand herself as well. Among his personal effects is an unopened letter addressed to Sofia. Nearly thirty years later, Hugo’s estranged daughter, Joanna, has returned home to the English countryside to arrange her father’s funeral. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany.
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