The Woman with Two Shadows: A Novel of WWII

For fans of Atomic City Girls and The Secrets We Kept, the story of a woman caught up in one of the most closely held secrets of World War II

Lillian Kaufman hasn’t heard from her twin sister Eleanor since she left for a classified job at an Army base somewhere in Tennessee. Then Lillian learns that Eleanor is missing. Lillian leaves New York to sneak into the mysterious town of Oak Ridge, only to learn that Eleanor has vanished without a trace - and she’s not the only one. But how do you find someone in a town so dangerous that it doesn’t officially exist? Forced to pretend to be Eleanor, Lillian finds herself in the epicentre of the gravest scientific undertaking of all time, with no idea who she can trust. And the more she acts like Eleanor, the more she loses her grip on herself.

‘Utterly fascinating and meticulously researched, The Woman with Two Shadows is a riveting tale about a town and its people that officially never existed and the secrecy behind one of the Manhattan Project’s top-secret cities responsible for creating the atom bomb used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. James’s debut is beautifully written and captivating!’ - Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and The Book Woman’s Daughter