![]() ![]() ![]() Among the odd collection of European expatriates trapped there by the worsening political situation back on the Continent, Sira reinvents herself by turning to the one skill that can save her: her gift for creating beautiful clothes.īetween Love and Duty. However, she soon finds herself abandoned, penniless, and heartbroken in an exotic land. With the Spanish Civil War brewing in Madrid, Sira leaves her mother and her fiancé, impetuously following her handsome lover to Morocco. But everything changes when two charismatic men burst unexpectedly into her neatly mapped-out life: an attractive salesman and the father she never knew.īetween War and Peace. By her early twenties she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship. At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War IIīetween Youth and Adulthood. ![]()
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