Author : Montefiore, Santa – Personal Name
Series Title : –
Call Number : FIC 823 MON L
Publisher : Hodder : London., 2005
Collation : 416 pages
Language : English
ISBN/ISSN : 0340830891
Alba always feels like an outsider. She hardly knew her Italian mother and her English father acts as if Valentina never existed. She despises country life almost as much as she despises her stepmother and stepsisters. On board the house boat named after her dead mother, Alba’s life is little more than a selfish search for fun and pleasure.
But the discovery of her mother’s portrait sends the girl back to Italy to find her family – and the truth about Valentina. Amid the olive groves of the Amalfi coast, its balmy air rich with the scent of figs, a tale of deception and betrayal is waiting to be discovered. It is a tale that takes Alba into the past – but also gives her a new future.
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