Publications
The book is also accompanied by a music CD which consists of a poem written in the Filicudare dialect and 8 additional music tracks. The book is almost entirely historical fiction with minor references to anecdotal snippets of stories I have heard that add historical interest and a sense of authenticity to its contents.
It was originally my wish to pass our history on to our children, but somewhere over the years that I have worked on this story it redefined itself and became an intriguing story that spans the years 1940 to 1995.
Here is a read guaranteed to keep readers hooked to the very last line!
The Plot
When in 1940, Italy is thrust into World War 2, the 17 year old Francesca who lives on the tiny almost desolate island of Filicudi located north of Sicily, is separated from her lover who is sent to fight. When she discovers she is pregnant, she refuses to divulge the father’s name. Not only are others implicated as a result of her secretiveness, but many more secrets are uncovered, gossip gets out of hand and still more scintillating tales emerge. Francesca’s secret becomes a link to the secrets of others, and inch by inch the ramifications of secrets that extended through 2 generations begin to emerge. When a long hidden manuscript is by uncanny chance discovered in 1995, the pieces of a giant jigsaw eventually come together, with total unpredictability.