Waking up to her kind smile and the warming smell of Italian hot chocolate, Davide soon blurts out what drove him into the cold Tuscan night: how he’s different from everyone else, he’s never belonged anywhere, and now his beloved mother is ill. It’s been a long time since she had a visitor. Ninety years later. When elderly Giselda Chiozzi discovers a lost little boy, curled up asleep in the beech forest outside her grand but empty home, she can’t help but take pity on him. Behind his deep brown eyes hides a heartbreaking secret… In a tiny hamlet nestled in the Tuscan mountains, farmers gather after a hard day in the meadows, and children’s laughter rings across the square: but one little boy does not join in their play.
But in this small Tuscan community, some wartime secrets were never meant to be uncovered…Ī Tuscan Memory (previously published as Now and Then in Tuscany) When she meets an elderly Italian gentleman living in a deserted hamlet, who flinches at her mother’s name and refuses to speak English, Anna is sure he knows more about the devastating secret that tore apart her mother’s family. But Anna is no closer to learning the truth: what sent Ines running from her adored homeland? The diaries lead Anna to the small village of Rofelle, where she slowly starts to heal as she explores sun-kissed olive groves, and pieces together her mother’s past: happy days spent herding sheep across Tuscan meadows cruelly interrupted when World War Two erupted and the Nazis arrived fleeing her home to join the Resistenza and risking everything to protect an injured British soldier who captured her heart.
She inherits a box of papers, handwritten in Italian and yellowed with age, and a tantalising promise that the truth about what happened during the war lies within. An empty home that holds memories of homemade pasta and Nonna’s stories by the fire, and later: the Nazi invasion, and a family torn apart by a heartbreaking betrayal.Īnna is distraught when her beloved mother, Ines, passes away. An old crumbling mill, by a winding river, nestled in the Tuscan mountains. The Tuscan Secret (previously published as Tuscan Roots)
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