The Only Woman in the Room

by Marie Benedict

First published 2019

Hedy Lamarr is more than just a beautiful movie star. Driven by a brilliant mind, she risks everything to escape her gilded cage of a marriage and join the Austrian resistance during WWII. But when her scientific genius catches the eye of Nazi military commanders, Hedy must make an impossible choice: use her groundbreaking inventions to aid the enemy, or risk her life to protect her country and her dreams of becoming the first female inventor.

Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, world-war-ii, biography-memoir

Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water

Setting: Austria

Period: World War II

256 pages · Paperback · Hodder & Stoughton

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