The Lost Woman by Karen Mulvahill is a compelling and richly detailed World War II historical fiction debut. The novel weaves an emotional, dual-timeline narrative following Nicole Cassin, a Jewish teenager whose family art gallery is seized during the 1941 Nazi occupation of Paris. Decades later in New York City, she hires a determined art historian to trace her family’s stolen collection—including a rare portrait of her mother painted by Matisse—only to unearth a dangerous web of buried wartime secrets, lost love, and hidden identities.
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