About the Author

Caroline Moorehead is a bestselling and prize-winning author, and the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Madame de la Tour du Pin and Martha Gellhorn. Her recent books - a quartet focussed on resistance to dictatorship, particularly in Italy - were shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Orwell Prize and the Costa Biography Award. She lives in London.

Reviews

It's testament to Moorehead's precise, empathic prose that Edda emerges not as the Duce's devilish scion, but as a wounded, fragile being... It makes for a profoundly satisfying, albeit wistful, read and - give the recent victory of Giorgia Meloni in the Italian elections - a worryingly relevant one
*Guardian*

Interesting and original... Moorehead is a fine writer and a conscientious historian
*Spectator*

[Moorehead] brilliantly sketches the background of Mussolini and his regime
*LIterary Review*

Painstakingly researched and vividly told, this engrossing history turns the spotlight on the deeply conflicted Edda Mussolini, brilliantly balancing the big picture with a wealth of telling detail
*CLARE MULLEY, author of The Women Who Flew for Hitler*

Caroline Moorehead writes with her characteristic elegance, eye for detail and authoritative knowledge about a monster and a survivor. The story of Mussolini's glamorous daughter is certainly a fascinating one
*MIRANDA SEYMOUR, author of I Used to Live Here Once*

Wide-ranging and compelling... this book will take a leading place in all studies of the reality of Fascism and all authoritarianism
*RICHARD BOSWORTH, author of Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian Fascism*

This is a triumph
*Oldie*

Superbly written and researched
*Tablet*

[A] gripping new book
*History Today*