The Shrine

The Shrine

by Cristina Odone (Author)

Synopsis

The villagers of San Lorenzo have much to gossip about - the widow Lea's affair with the mayor,her daughter Santarella's visions of the Virgin Mary,the Ferrati family's financial decline,Alma Ferrati's affair with the lawyer Miso.As the seasons move forward,decisions are made about money,love and the future of the community.Will the bishop declare the village a shrine? Will Alma make the right choice? What will happen to little Santarella?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 04 Nov 1996

ISBN 10: 1857994299
ISBN 13: 9781857994292
Book Overview: A magical story of village life-love,loss,visions,gossip and greed-set against the turning seasons,festivities and traditions of the Italian countryside. The author is already an established media personality who has written for the Times Diary,Telegraph,Independent etc.,and regularly appears on TV and radio 'The value and strength of the heartwarming book...lie not so much in these grippingly interwoven plots as in the passionate and wholesome narrative style,enviably neat,snappy and lyrical...The scent of newly-baked bread stirs the village women's appetite for gossip,and smoke from Signorina's cigarette floats to the ceiling in two perfect circles like turtle doves.Indeed,the whole story,like its heroine,might be said to throb with a passion for life' SPECTATOR.