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In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family's summer home, Bella's reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge, and find friendship with Maestro Edward, his enigmatic music teacher.But as the decade draws to an end and fascism tightens its grip on Europe, the fact that Alec is Jewish places his life in grave danger. Bella and Edward take the boy on a terrifying train journey out of Italy - one they have no reason to believe any of them will survive...
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Kurztext
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In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family's summer home, Bella's reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge, and find friendship with Maestro Edward, his enigmatic music teacher.But as the decade draws to an end and fascism tightens its grip on Europe, the fact that Alec is Jewish places his life in grave danger. Bella and Edward take the boy on a terrifying train journey out of Italy - one they have no reason to believe any of them will survive...
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Autorenportrait
- Christine Dwyer Hickey is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Twice winner of the Listowel Writers' Week short story competition, she was also a prize-winner in the prestigiousObserver/Penguin short story competition. Her best-selling novelTatty was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Hughes& Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award. She lives in Dublin.
Detailansicht
Last Train from Liguria
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781848873070
Umbreit-Nr.: 3641537
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 400 S., 0.62 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.05.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen