Mirror Images

By Mary Messina

Mirror Images is an historical romantic novel set in the turbulent years of the late 1930s and early 1940s.

The drama begins in Mussolini's Italy where it is becoming increasingly apparent to two professional Jewish families that their Fascist leader is following Hitler in ways detrimental to Italian Jews.

With the subsequent brutal murder of a young Jewish man, Nicola, for perceived subversive activities, young Dr Pietro is encouraged to emigrate with his young family to the safety of North Queensland.

Their tranquility in this new land is threatened, however, when Mussolini joins the Axis powers. In June 1940.

Italian Australians become enemy aliens and are randomly interned for their ethnicity and the government's fear of a Fifth Column.

Through family letters, parallels are drawn between Mussolini's treatment of the Italian Jews and the Australian government's treatment of Italian Australians.

Mirror Images is above all a story of enduring love, of stoic determination, of perseverance and resilience in the face of injustice and adversity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837944016
• ISBN13: 9781837944019
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Vanguard Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"