Sarah Robbins at Abrams Press has acquired at auction the world English rights for Sarah DiGregorio’s Women in the Time of Monsters: The Incredible True Story of the Ordinary Teachers, Mothers, and Nurses Who Fought Fascism in Vichy France. This historical biography will illuminate the lives of women who resisted the oppressive regime of a patriarchal puppet state in the shadow of Nazi Germany. The book will feature Marie-Louise Giraud, who ran an underground abortion ring and was executed by guillotine; Berty Albrecht, who founded the resistance newspaper Combat; a nurse code-named Marianne, who treated wounded partisans in the Alps; and teacher Madeline Marzin, who organized a Mother's Day protest throwing sardine cans into a hungry crowd.
