| Description |
593 pages (large print) : 24 cm |
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large print rda |
| Summary |
Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . . In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli thrives in the coastal town of Viareggio until her beloved home becomes unsafe when Italy teeters on the brink of World War II. Her journey takes her from the rocky shores of Marseille to the mystical beauty of Scotland to the dangers of wartime Liverpool--where Italian Scots are imprisoned without cause--as Domenica experiences love, loss, and grief while she longs for home. A hundred years later, her daughter, Matelda, and her granddaughter, Anina, face the same big questions about life and their family's legacy, while Matelda contemplates what is worth fighting for. But Matelda is running out of time, and the two timelines intersect and weave together in unexpected and heartbreaking ways that lead the family to shocking revelations and, ultimately, redemption. |
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Nineteen forties -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
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Terminally ill -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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Italians -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Legacies -- Fiction.
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Grief -- Fiction.
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Romance fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Large type books.
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| ISBN |
9780593556450 paperback |
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0593556453 paperback |
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