Kate Caterina

The mesmerising story of a young English woman surviving the Second World War inside Nazi-Fascist Europe, witness to Italy’s slide into barbarism and civil war.

When Kate Fenn marries a young Italian medical student in London in the mid-thirties she finds herself, as Caterina d’Alessandria, in Tuscany when World War II breaks out. With her brother and brother-in-law in opposing armies, a husband imprisoned for his anti-Fascist activities and a small daughter to protect, Kate Caterina struggles to hold on to her sense of identity and her faith in a better future.