Every Time We Say Goodbye: A Novel

In 1955, playwright Vivien Lowry faces the collapse of her career after critics destroy her latest West End play—the only one that season written by a woman. Encouraged by her friend Peggy Guggenheim, she accepts work as a script doctor at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, where she’s drawn into Italy’s vibrant postwar film world—alive with creativity yet constrained by the Catholic Church’s influence. As Vivien seeks to rebuild her life and career, she must also confront the haunting mystery of her fiancé’s death in World War II. Every Time We Say Goodbye is a moving story of love, art, grief, and renewal from the bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls.