In Falling Snow MacColl, Mary-Rose

Iris is a doctor in her eighties, living alone in the Australian suburbs, when her daughter finds a mysterious photograph from WWII. It's Iris as a young woman, standing among the ruins of France with two other women — both of whom she's never mentioned. The discovery unravels a long-buried secret: during the war, Iris drove ambulances on the front lines, witnessed unimaginable horror, and fell into a love affair that would haunt her for decades. Mary-Rose MacColl braids past and present with surgical precision, moving between battlefields and quiet Australian domesticity. This is a novel about the stories we bury, the versions of ourselves we leave behind, and the weight of silence carried across a lifetime. For readers who loved *The Nightingale* or *All the Light We Cannot See* — intimate, devastating historical fiction with real emotional heft.