The Little Italian Bakery

'A true feast for the senses' Jenny Ashcroft, author of Beneath a Burning Sky The scent of freshly baked biscuits, lemon and aniseed reminds Elettra of her mother's kitchen. But her mother is in a coma, and the family bakery is failing. Elettra is distraught; she has many unanswered questions about her mother's childhood - Edda was a secretive woman. The only clue is a family heirloom: a necklace inscribed with the name of an island. Elettra buys a one-way ticket to that island, just off the coast of Sardinia. Once there, she discovers a community of women, each lost in their own way. They live in a crumbling convent, under threat from the local mayor and his new development plan. It is within the convent's dark corridors and behind its secret doors that Elettra discovers a connection to her mother's past. She also falls in love again: with friendship, baking and adventure.

Product details

• Authors: Valentina Cebeni, Cebeni Valentina
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780349141985
• ISBN: 978-0-349-14198-5
• No. of pages: 343
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / Italian, FICTION / Romance / Holiday, Italy, Sardinia, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary