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- ISBN 9781916966406
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 2025
- Publisher: The Conrad Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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‘Italian Hills, Farewell’ is an intriguing and unforgettable first novel. It is the story of one woman remembering her troubled life in 1920s fascist Italy.
Rita is an Italian peasant from the northern mountains, with very little education. She is naive, feels she belongs nowhere and allows herself to be exploited by ‘well-wishers’ with political motives. When the secret police become interested in her, she flees but, in helping a woman with a new baby, she falls foul of the woman’s husband. The tension rises and she knows that she must somehow escape from Italy at all costs.
Luisa Gunning’s mother was Italian and Luisa spent many holidays in Italy as a teenager. At university, she read Classics and Italian and still reads widely. She is currently working on a novel about Frankie, one of the characters in ‘Italian Hills, Farewell’. She enjoys painting in watercolours and walking in Derbyshire. She lives in the East Midlands with her husband Dennis and her black cat.
