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The Village Trattoria
A sweeping World War II saga and prequel to The Moonlit Piazza
Series: Casa Maria
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‘A wonderful, joyous book, which really spoke to me about the indomitability of the human spirit.’ Elizabeth Enfield Italy 1943 The village trattoria, Casa Maria, is famed for its food and for Elena, the formidable matriarch who runs it. But now war has come to Umbria....
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A family divided over the future of its famous restaurant is plunged into turmoil as Italy falls
to the Germans in 1943.
A family divided over the future of its famous restaurant is plunged into turmoil as Italy falls
to the Germans in 1943.
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‘A wonderful, joyous book, which really spoke to me about the indomitability of the human spirit.’ Elizabeth Enfield
Italy 1943
The village trattoria, Casa Maria, is famed for its food and for Elena, the formidable matriarch who runs it. But now war has come to Umbria.
Sophia di Luca cooks brilliantly and expects to take over the trattoria from Elena one day. But instead, it is the charismatic, unpredictable Giorgio Capaldi who has inherited it and now arrives from Rome to run it.
While Sophia and Giorgio clash, the town falls under Nazi occupation. And when no one knows who to trust, it is Casa Maria that becomes the centre for secrets, dangerous passions, and ultimately betrayal.
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS The Enemy of Love
Read The Moonlit Piazza, the next instalment in the Casa Maria series, now!
Praise for Annabelle Thorpe:
'Unputdownable!' Claire Dyer, author of The Last Day
'A pacy, engaging tale of human weakness and of passion so overwhelming it can make fools of us all' Daily Express
Series: Casa Maria
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781803289182
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 July 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Aria
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 280g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Annabelle Thorpe has been a travel and features journalist for over twenty years, spending six years on The Times Travel desk, before becoming deputy travel editor for Express Newspapers, and then taking the same role at the Observer. She was named one of the top 50 travel writers in the UK and has visited almost sixty countries, including crossing China by train, driving solo across the Omani desert, and nearly getting run over in Tripoli. Her first novel, The People We Were Before, was set in the Croatian civil war of the 1990s, her second, What Lies Within, is set in Marrakech. She has also written two travel books. Home is rural Sussex, with her husband and cat, although she remains a Londoner at heart.
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