Angela Petch
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For young mother Fosca Sentino, accepting refuge from reluctant British war hero Richard - in Tuscany to escape his tragic past - is the only way to keep her little family safe. She once risked everything to spy on Nazi commanders and pass secret information to the resistenza. But after a heartbreaking betrayal, Fosca's best friend Simonetta disappeared without trace. The whole community was torn apart, and now Fosca and her son are outcasts. Wary...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Postcard from Italy is set in dual times, 1945 Italy and present day England. In 1945, a young man is discovered after having parachuted out of his plane. He has no memory but quickly discovers that Italy feels like home. Present day England where Susannah, owner of Cobwebs antique shop, struggles to find her bearing after her beloved father dies. Susannah finds a yellowed postcard with a picture of a beautiful Italian farmhouse tucked away in...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When elderly Giselda Chiozzi discovers a lost little boy, curled up asleep in the beech forest outside her grand but empty home, she can’t help but take pity on him. It’s been a long time since she had a visitor. Waking up to her kind smile and the warming smell of Italian hot chocolate, Davide soon blurts out what drove him into the cold Tuscan night: how he’s different from everyone else, he’s never belonged anywhere, and now his beloved...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
c2023
Language
English
Description
"Italy, 1940. The girl sobs and rages as her father tells her the terrible news. "Italy is entering the war alongside Germany. Jews are to be arrested and sent to camps. We have to be ready." As fascists march across the cobbled piazzas and past the towered buildings of her beloved home city, twenty-year-old Devora's worst fears come true. Along with her Jewish parents and twin little brothers they are torn away from everything they love and sent...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Alba meets Massimo, an elderly man who wants to spend his final years pruning his fruit trees, alone with his painful memories. His face turns pale when Alba brings up the war, but she senses that their shared grief connects them. An unlikely friendship grows as little by little Massimo speaks of Lucia: a wild young girl with sparkling eyes who fell in love with an enemy soldier, bravely stole precious Italian treasures back from Nazi occupiers,...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Il Mulino. An old crumbling mill, by a winding river, nestled in the Tuscan mountains. An empty home that holds memories of homemade pasta and Nonna's stories by the fire, and later: the Nazi invasion, and a family torn apart by a heartbreaking betrayal. Anna is distraught when her beloved mother, Ines, passes away. She inherits a box of papers, handwritten in Italian and yellowed with age, and a tantalizing promise that the truth about what happened...