Central Italy, on the eve of the Second World War: Stefano Portelli, a hopeful lawyer with a head full of utopias, is in love with Eleonora.
Other lives run parallel to theirs: that of Alastair Ormiston, an English Royal Air Force pilot, who adores Virginia Woolf’s books, and that of Edna, his best friend.
In this gripping coming-of-age novel, a group of young people’s lives and passions collide in unexpected ways as the Second World War transforms Italy and England.



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