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Exotically beautiful but desperately unhappy, Alba lives on a houseboat on the Thames, where she enjoys a life of leisure and entertains an endless and unfulfilling succession of lovers. Though irresistible to men, her striking Mediterranean features and fiery temper distance her from her father and stepmother's aristocratic and highly traditional English family.
When Alba discovers a portrait of her dead mother, Valentina -- a mysterious Italian beauty she'd hardly known, whose story has been kept from her by her still grieving father -- she is instantly shaken from complacency. Determined to learn the truth about Valentina, Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy, to her mother's tiny village of Incantellaria, ignoring the friends and family who urge her to leave the past alone. Once there, Alba discovers cultural roots and the love of a new family, and begins to uncover wartime secrets protected for decades. Alba's quest to understand her mother's identity takes her beyond anything she could have imagined, revealing a mysterious tale of desperation, decadence, deception, murder, and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants and counts. Alba's journey leads her not only to the truth of her family's hidden past but to the possibility of love and happiness in her own future.
Last Voyage of the Valentina is a sweeping, romantic story that makes for a great escape for any booklover.
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"Sensual, sensitive and complex . . . a passionate page-turning life journey and a dark mystery that sweeps from war-torn Italy to aristocratic 1960s London." -- Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes
"Escape into a world of ardent love and doomed desire . . ." -- InStyle (UK)
"If you are a fan of the old-fashioned blockbuster and are fond of a little Rosamunde Pilcher-style nostalgia, this is just the ticket." -- Glamour (UK)
"The stuff of delicious escapism." -- The Sunday Times (UK)
"Santa Montefiore is a superb storyteller of love and death in romantic places in fascinating times." -- Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes
L'autore
Santa Montefiore is the internationally bestselling author of several novels, including The French Gardener and The Last Voyage of the Valentina. She lives in London with her husband, historian Simon Sebag-Montefiore, and their two children. Visit her website at SantaMontefioreAuthor.com.
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- EditoreTouchstone Books
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 0743299434
- ISBN 13 9780743299435
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine389
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