Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe Book

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

A Washington Post Book World Critic's Choice of the Year

In this elegant and affecting follow-up to her extraordinary memoir, Borrowed Finery, a young writer travels through a Europe ravaged by the Second World War.

The Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley

n this as in all other matters, honesty is Fox's rule. Her account of a brief affair with a hero of the Resistance, a man whose wife had protected him from the Gestapo at awful cost to herself, takes only four paragraphs, every word of them precise, painful and -- I have no doubt -- true. Every page of this short, intense book is like that. It is self-revelatory but never self-absorbed, beautifully written but never showily so. Too bad there isn't more of it, but it is, of course, exactly the right length.