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Language
English
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This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war with the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1933, seventeen-year-old Bea is invited to visit her bohemian uncle in Italy where she meets Ben, a brash young artist, who challenges her to create the perfect summer romance.
1930s England. Bea knows she will have to marry rich to keep the family estate alive, but she longs for travel, adventure, passion. Invited to spend the summer in Italy with her uncle and his bohemian friends, she meets Ben, a young artist. One night under the stars a challenge...
4) Mad: a novel
Author
Series
Mad, bad, and dangerous to know volume 1
Mad bad and dangerous to know trilogy volume Book 1
Mad bad and dangerous to know volume 1
Mad bad and dangerous to know trilogy volume Book 1
Mad bad and dangerous to know volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In this compulsively readable debut, set between London and Sicily over one blood-drenched week in the dead of summer, an identical twin reveals the crazy lies and twists she'll go through to not only steal her sister's perfect life, but to keep on living it. Alvie Knightly is a trainwreck: aimless, haphazard, and pretty much constantly drunk. Alvie's existence is made even more futile in contrast to that of her identical and perfect twin sister,...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Call Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign. She believes in feelings, not algorithms. So after a recent breakup and dating app debacle, she decides to put love on hold and escapes to a remote writers' retreat in coastal Italy. She's determined to finish writing the novel she's been fantasizing about, even though it means leaving her close-knit group of...
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