Caroline Moorehead is the New York Times bestselling author of A Bold and Dangerous Family, Village of Secrets, and A Train in Winter, which, with A House in the Mountains, form the Resistance Quartet. Human Cargo, her book about the international refugee crisis, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An acclaimed biographer, Moorehead has also written for the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the Times, and the Independent. She lives in London and Italy.
"Gripping and important.... Moorehead delicately unravels and
interweaves the personal stories of several key women in the
Italian resistance... giving us a compelling narrative that vividly
describes who these women were and what they did for their
country.... A House in the Mountains is something of a
manifesto against neutrality, and a showcase of the boundless power
of female passion. The women of the resistance still have so much
to teach us today."--AirMail
"Gripping... exhaustively researched... Moorehead artfully builds
the tension as liberation approaches and partisans make a desperate
last stand."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Important, meticulously researched... A House in the
Mountains tells the untold story of the women of the Italian
resistance.... Dramatic, heartbreaking and sweeping in scope, Ms.
Moorehead's book charts the experiences of these women in the wider
context of the war in Italy."--Wall Street Journal
"Italy often gets short shrift in popular English-language
histories about World War II, with the fighting in the country
shrugged off as a sideshow to the Battle of Britain and the
invasion of France. Caroline Moorehead takes advantage of this
relative gap in the literature with the moving A House in the
Mountains."--The Oregonian
"The moving finale of a quartet of books on resistant to
fascism.... Ms. Moorehead conveys the terror with understated
power; she is equally good at conjuring the blurred morality of
civil conflict."--The Economist
"Moorehead, in the final book of her "Resistance Quartet" series,
tells the incredible story of the stafetta, women of the
Italian resistance.... A fine history."--Library Journal,
starred review
"Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the
women of the Italian Resistance.... [An] excellent book."--The
Sunday Times
“In this deeply moving, beautifully told history,
biographer and historian Moorehead shares the story of northern
Italian resistance during WWII, focusing on the anti-Fascists of
Turin... [A] superb and significant chronicle."--Booklist,
starred review
"A highly satisfying conclusion to the author's series. Excellent,
well-presented evidence of the incalculable strengths and abilities
of women to create and run a country."--Kirkus, starred
review
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