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Tuscany 1968 Outside the imposing gates of Villa La Magdalena home to one of Italy's most powerful families a little girl with ragged clothes spies from the wall. Floriana is obsessed by the Villa's faded splendour and its lush gardens. For Floriana spying at La Magdalena provides a welcome break from life at home - caring for her alcoholic father; grieving the mother who abandoned them. When one hot summer day Floriana is caught spying by Dante Bonfanti the handsome son of the house little do either of them realise how profoundly the course of their lives will be changed forever. Devon 2009 Marina Turner beloved second wife of Grey and despised stepmother to his grown-up daughter Clementine is about to lose her home. Grey and Marina bought the Hotel Polzanze soon after they were married. That was almost twenty years ago when Marina still dreamed of having children of her own to fill up the elegant old house with laughter and love. Now desperate at the prospect of being forced to sell her treasured Polzanze Marina decides to hire an artist-in-residence for the summer to attract much-needed guests.With his striking looks and Latin charm Argentine painter Fabio Rabollini is sure to breathe new life into the hotel - and perhaps he'll be a healing influence for troubled Clementine. But Fabio intends to do much more than that. He has his own secret quest which has brought him to England. How will it link the lives of Marina and Clementine to the Tuscan world of Villa La Magdalena so many years before?Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    In The House By The Sea, ten-year-old Floriana is enchanted by the beauty of the villa just outside her small village. One day, Dante, the son of the villa's powerful owner, invites her in. Many years later, the owner of an ailing hotel on the Devon coast advertises for an artist in residence to teach guests how to paint. The man she hires soon begins to heal the conflict in her family. But this mysterious figure is not who he seems, and has his own agenda. Spanning four decades and many hundreds of miles, Santa Montefiore's captivating novel is complex and irresistibly compelling.

  • Blackwell

    The stunning new novel set between 1960s Tuscany and present-day coastal Devon, from bestselling, critically acclaimed author Santa Montefiore An irresistibly compelling from the internationally bestselling author Ten-year-old Floriana is...

  • 1847379303
  • 9781847379306
  • Santa Montefiore
  • 21 July 2011
  • Simon & Schuster UK
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 496
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