Synopses & Reviews
Two women's decision to save a child during WWII will have powerful reverberations over the years.
Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family.
Claiming
the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return;
only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is
twenty-seven, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous
journey ahead, and now a child in her charge.
Several decades
later, Chiara lives alone in Rome, a self-contained woman working as a
translator. Always in the background is the shadow of Daniele, whose
absence and the havoc he wrought on Chiara's world haunt her. Then she
receives a phone call from a teenager claiming to be his daughter, and
Chiara knows it is time to face up to the past.
About the Author
Virginia Baily holds a PhD and MA in English from the University of Exeter and has taught English as a Foreign Language, Italian and French, and has lived and worked in both France and Italy.