About the book: 2020 / Martha Gellhorn, writer and greatest war correspondent of the twentieth century. Strong, brave, independent. It was she who had the privilege of inspiring Ernest Hemingway during his work on the grandiose novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. They got married when she was thirty-two years old, he was forty-one. It seemed that their marriage, based on passionate love, was destined to last a long time. But this did not happen. Two bright, strong, talented personalities collided, and love turned to ashes. Paula McLain brilliantly brings to life the story of her heroine: a woman willing to risk her personal happiness in the name of finding her own voice.