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THE MAKING OF MARIGOLD MCGRATH
By: Carrie Hayes
A Novel of London in the Second World War
Author Self-Published
May 2026
On Sale: April 29, 2026
310 pages
Kindle: B0GGVDNFY8
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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
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