Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of counterintelligence agent Sumner Fox in a precarious plot to extract the Digbys from behind the Iron Curtain.īut the complex truth behind Iris’s marriage defies Ruth’s understanding, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet KGB officer forces them to make a heartbreaking choice between two irreconcilable loyalties. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets?įour years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby.

The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. The world is shocked by the family's sensational disappearance. She is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of A Hundred Summers, The Secret Life of Violet Grant. In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. Beatriz Williams is a graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia. In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion. The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion. But now here is Beatriz Williams with 'Our Woman in Moscow,' part spy thriller, part romance and, taken as a whole, a tale of two indomitable women. 13 quotes from Our Woman in Moscow: ‘Ruth, I spent most of my life just trying to be safe. 'A captivating Cold War page-turner.' - Real Simple Dont miss the gripping new book from the international bestseller - the story of two sisters caught up in Cold War. In Our Woman in Moscow, best-selling author Beatriz Williams brings her stylish yet accessible prose to a novel of Cold War espionage and a family divided by chance, choices and.

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