Monica’s War by Jo Horne
Monica Beresford Wichfeld lived life on her terms and without apology. As a young woman, she socialized with some of the most famous people of her era—Noel Coward, Tallulah Bankhead, Coco Chanel—using her connections to build a business that would save her husband’s familial estate from bankruptcy. Born in Great Britain, she married a Danish aristocrat and landowner and moved to his lavish estate on the island of Lolland, south of Copenhagen. Shortly after settling there, she began a nine-year affair with a neighbor (with the sanction of her husband) and raised three children. But Monica’s most defiant act came when she was in her forties and the Nazis invaded her adopted homeland. A woman without fear, she made the estate available as a haven for the Resistance and as a drop point for the weapons and supplies meant to arm them for their fight. In 1944, at the age of fifty, she was betrayed by a fellow resistor and was sentenced to death by hanging. When Danes protested, her sentence was commuted to life in prison.
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Writing genre fiction as Anna Schmidt, Jo Horne is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author. This Milwaukee author earned her Master of Arts degree in Theatre Arts. Her first attempt at screenwriting made it to the quarter finals of the Nicholl Screenwriting Competition. She has taught at the college level and is a popular presenter of hands-on workshops at writing seminars and conferences. She is currently working on a memoir about the death of her husband and her own journey into widowhood.