Eva Hope was born in Japan in 1887. At the age of five, she moved with her family back to Wiltshire, where Hope grew up with her sisters. She eventually became a teacher and lived in a lesbian relationship with another teacher, Emily. They taught and travelled together to Italy, where thy befriended an Anglo-Italian family. In 1938, Emily tragically died of breast cancer while Germany under Hitler was pursuing the Jews. Just before World War II started,...