A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter and a heart-stopping account of
the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy 'Engrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of
phrase a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote and a gift for marshaling complex
material' Jenny Uglow New York Times Book Review Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite
daughter: spoilt venal and uneducated but also clever brave and ultimately loyal. She was
her father's confidante during the 20 years of Fascist rule and married Foreign Secretary
Galeazzo Ciano making them the most celebrated couple in Roman fascist society. Their fortunes
turned in 1943 when Ciano voted against Mussolini in a plot to bring him down. In a dramatic
story that takes in hidden diaries her father's fall and her husband's execution we come to
know a complicated bold and determined woman who emerges not just as a witness but as a key
player in some of the twentieth century's defining moments. 'Vividly told engrossing history'
CLARE MULLEY author of The Women Who Flew for Hitler'Precise empathic . . . a profoundly
satisfying albeit wistful read and . . . a worryingly relevant one' GUARDIAN
