The Making of Marigold McGrath: A Novel of London in the Second World War

New York City, 1937. Seventeen-year-old Marigold McGrath is coming undone.

Her mother is dead. Her father is drawn to dangerous politics. The only place she feels joy is behind a camera - where she can frame the world on her own terms.

After a series of her own missteps, she reinvents herself in London: mentored by a celebrated émigré photographer, photographing Kindertransport children, working alongside Edward R. Murrow. She falls in love with Joop, a charming Dutch student, and shrugs off the war gathering around her.

Then the Blitz begins.

Joop vanishes into the Dutch Resistance. And Marigold - who has always preferred to photograph the world as she wishes it were - must finally decide what kind of woman, and what kind of witness, she is willing to become.

A sweeping WWII coming-of-age novel set in wartime London.

For readers of Kristin Hannah, Kate Quinn, and SL Beaumont's The War Photographers

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Htph Press
Published: 04/29/2026
ISBN: 9798995323914
Pages: 346
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d