The Italian Wife
a breath-taking and heartbreaking pre-WWII romance set in Italy
$24.90
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2015
Summary
Italy, 1932 – Mussolini’s Italy is growing from strength to strength, but at what cost?
One bright autumn morning, architect Isabella Berotti sits at a cafe in the vibrant centre of Bellina, when a woman she’s never met asks her to watch her ten-year-old daughter, just for a moment. Reluctantly, Isabella agrees – and then watches in horror as the woman climbs to the top of the town’s clock tower and steps over the edge.
This tragic encounter draws vivid memories to the surface…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751550764 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0751550760 |
| Author: | Kate Furnivall |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 28mm |
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Kate Furnivall has a wonderful gift for evoking a location, and her stories are always fast-paced page-turners, peppered with authentic detail - Lucinda Riley, author of Hothouse Flower
The setting is sweeping, the story big and the description vivid - Courier MailFurnivall’s descriptions are powerful … the plotting and pace are breathless - Historical Novels ReviewBreathtaking historical fiction - The TimesAbout The Author
Kate Furnivall
Kate Furnivall was born in Wales and studied English at London University. She worked in publishing and then moved to TV advertising, where she met her husband.
In 2000, Kate decided to write her mother’s extraordinary story of growing up in Russia, China and India, and this became The Russian Concubine, which was a New York Times bestseller. All her books since then have had an exotic setting and Kate has travelled widely for her research. She now has two sons and lives with her husband in a cottage by the sea in Devon.
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