I’m casting the movie of The Italian Correspondent in my mind and I keep seeing Blake Lively as Veronica because I think she could capture the kind of mid-twentieth century glamour that belongs with this story. Veronica Gold began her career in the 1930s as a cadet journalist with the New York Times, then became Vogue Magazine’s Italian correspondent attached to the Eighth Army during the Second World War.
By 1951 Veronica is trying to bring some peace, calm and orderliness into her life; living in Italy, covering fashion shows and attempting to write a novel about Pompeii. She has witnessed the horrors of war and also taken two enormous personal blows. The stunning backdrop to her story is Italy, from Rome to Positano and the Italian countryside.
After the war to end all wars came the Cold War, countries were developing nuclear weapons, there were spies everywhere, Burgess and McLean defected and the CIA had a presence in Italy. In the midst of all this Veronica’s life is once again filled with drama; there is intrigue, romance and a shocking murder.
Veronica Gold is one person whose parting words were never going to be: Is that all there is?
Good one, Belinda!
Published by Harper Collins
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