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. 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. 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. They saw capitalism as a failed system and believed Soviet propaganda regarding the benefits of Marxism. Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a. Our Woman in Moscow Beatriz Williams The worldwide depression of the 1930s caused many naively idealistic, college-educated young people to join the Communist Party. In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. Dont miss the gripping new book from the international bestseller - the story of two sisters caught up in Cold War espionage In 1948, Iris Digby vanishes. In 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. Ocean House owner and author, Deborah Goodrich Royce will be moderating the conversations with our featured authors.

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