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From the No 1 bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries, a warm-hearted, multi-generational saga of family secrets for fans of Santa Montefiore and Lucinda Riley. Sometimes you must revisit the past in order to move forward. ''A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF ITALIAN LIFE, WRITTEN WITH SKILL AND INSIGHT'' Katie Fforde Sophie is only a quarter Italian. But that quarter comes from her charismatic grandfather Cesare, and he has instilled in her a great love of her Italian heritage. So when a journalist starts to investigate Cesare''s wartime record, Sophie is reluctant to question just how proud she should really be. She embarks upon a journey into the past which takes her from nineteenth-century Naples to London''s Italian quarter and one of World War 2''s forgotten tragedies. And along the way she also learns something very important about herself ...
About the author
Domenica de Rosa started her career working at the Bookseller, and went on to work in children's publishing. She is now a full time writer and, under the name Elly Griffiths, is the author of the bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries and the Brighton mysteries. Domenica is half-Italian and loves the Tuscan coast. She has two grown-up children and lives in Brighton with her archaeologist husband and their cat, Pip.
