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Harlequin Special Releases
November 2008
On Sale: November 1, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 0373892012
EAN: 9780373892013
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Women's Fiction
Gala opera evenings. Sudden wealth and fame. Dangerous
undercover missions into the heart of Nazi Germany.
Standing up to the perils of the Blitz. No one would have
predicted such glamorous and daring lives for Ida and
Louise Cook—two decidedly ordinary Englishwomen who came
of age between the wars and seemed destined never to stray
from their quiet London suburb and comfortable civil
service jobs. But in 1923 a chance hearing of an aria from
Madame Butterfly sparked a passion in the sisters that
became a vehicle for both their greatest happiness and the
rescue of dozens of Jews facing persecution and death. Safe Passage is one of the most unusual and inspiring
accounts to come out of the cataclysm of World War II.
First published in 1950, Ida's memoir of the adventures
she and Louise shared remains as fresh, vital and
entertaining as the woman who wrote it. The Cook sisters'
zest for life and genuine "goodness" shines through every
page and explains why the leading opera singers of their
day befriended and loved them. Even when Ida began to earn
thousands as a successful romance novelist, the sisters
never departed from their homespun virtues of thrift, hard
work, self-sacrifice and unwavering moral conviction. They
sewed their own clothes, traveled third class, bought the
cheapest tickets during opera season and directed every
spare resource, as well as their own considerable courage
and ingenuity, toward saving as many people as they could
from Hitler's death camps. Uplifting and utterly charming, Safe Passage is moving
testimony to all that can be achieved when conscience and
compassion are applied to a collapsing world.
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