The Beautiful American

"As recovery from World War II begins, expat American Nora Tours travels from her home in southern France to London in search of her missing sixteen-year-old daughter. There she unexpectedly meets up with an old acquaintance, famous model-turned-photographer Lee Miller. Neither has emerged from the war unscathed: Nora is racked with the fear that her efforts to survive under the Vichy regime may have cost her daughter's life; Lee suffers from what she witnessed as a war correspondent photographing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps"--Page 4 of cover.