{"product_id":"silvia-by-maya-caruso-9781786587596","title":"Silvia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilvia\u003c\/em\u003e is a character so vibrant, flawed, perceptive. The honesty of Maya Caruso's debut novel is equally hilarious and poignant.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - Melina Marchetta, author of \u003cem\u003eLooking for Alibrandi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Maya Caruso's sharp, tender, insightful and wickedly ironic novel is Silvia Junior: a 42-year-old Italo-Australian workaholic who's nailed career success but flunked personal fulfilment. Romance? She ghosted it sometime after her divorce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnter her mother, Silvia Senior: a widowed Italian matriarch with opinions laced with old-school patriarchy and a Rolodex of gossip-hungry nonnas. She's made it her full-time job to remind Junior that she's alone, unmarried and probably infertile. Their relationship is equal parts love, loathing and mutual dependency - a tangle of guilt, meatballs and inherited trauma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen an old friend resurfaces, Junior's carefully collapsed world starts to expand. There's flirting, there's dancing, there's actual joy. Shockingly, Senior gets swept up in the action too, dipping a cautious toe into the world of dating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut as both women step out of their comfort zones, life pushes back. Chaos ensues, feelings get messy, and not even a solid plate of lasagne can fix everything. \u003cem\u003eSilvia\u003c\/em\u003e is a funny, heartbreaking look at what happens when women - especially ones raised to hold it all together - turn their backs on expectations and go in search of themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Pass me a prosecco! All eyes are on the clock as Caruso plunges al dente into a big-hearted dish of mother-and-daughter love and guilt, and later-age dating. For Silvia Junior, divorced and approaching the shoals of middle-age, time for sexy romance is definitely running out. For long-widowed matriarch Silvia Senior, it's a case of better late than never again. \u003cem\u003eSilvia\u003c\/em\u003e is a joyous romp of a novel, sparkling with wit, energy and home truths.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - Tony Maniaty, journalist, photographer, screenwriter and author of \u003cem\u003eShooting Balibo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455691374828,"sku":"9781786587596","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/51PRy4tkrvL.jpg?v=1774794392","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/silvia-by-maya-caruso-9781786587596","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}