In her new novel, “Our Darkest Night”, bestselling author Jennifer Robson (“The Gown”) continues her quest to explore the lives of women in wartime. Set in 1943, it tells the story of Antonina (Nina) Mazin, an Italian Jewish woman who poses as the wife of a Catholic farmer to survive the Holocaust. Robson, an Oxford-trained historian, is known for infusing her novels with the accuracy of real events. But in “Our Darkest Night”, the history behind Nina’s story is also personal. In 2016, Robson learned that her husband’s Italian grandparents may have helped hide Jewish families during the war. In this heartfelt interview, Robson talks about that discovery and the duty she felt to share both the horrors and the hope of Nina’s story.

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