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When two brave women flee from the Communist Red Scare, they soon discover that no future is free from the past.Amid the glitz and glamour of 1950s New York, Phoebe Adler pursues her dream of screenwriting. A dream that turns into a living nightmare when she is blacklisted - caught in the Red Menace that is shattering the lives of suspected Communists. Desperate to work, she escapes to London, determined to keep her dream alive and clear her good name.There, Phoebe befriends fellow American exile Hannah Wolfson, who has defied the odds to build a career as a successful television producer in England. Hannah is a woman who has it all, and is now gambling everything in a very dangerous game - the game of hiring blacklisted writers.Neither woman suspects that danger still looms . . . and their fight is only just beginning.



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Sarah-Jane Stratford

Sarah-Jane Stratford is an author and essayist whose work has appeared in Marie-Claire, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Review of Books, Bitch, Bustle, Slate, Salon, BOMB, and Guernica, among others. She lives in London. Visit her online at: sarahjanestratford.com; www.facebook.com/SarahJaneStratfordAuthor; Instagram: @sarahjanestratford, and Twitter: @stratfordsj. Sarah-Jane is delighted to Skype with book clubs - please get in touch via her website or Facebook page.



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