Baily, Ginny

Early One Morning : a Novel Virginia Baily. - First North American edition. - 391 pages ; 25 cm

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.

9780316300391 (hbk.) 031630039X (hbk.)

2015936398


World War (1939-1945)


1939 - 1945


World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction
Women--Italy--Fiction
Women


Italy


Fiction
Historical fiction

PR6102.A556 / E27 2015b

823/.92