❤️ loved this book because...
Quirky characters. Found familyss. Sweeping saga of art and music. And a love letter to Firenze . I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, separated into chronological titled vignettes with threads of the characters deftly woven throughout. Evelyn meets Darnley and Ulysses in a tuscan villa during WWII and this random connection frames a lifelong friendship. The characters were deftly drawn, their relationships realistic and ultimately hopeful and loving, albeit often not traditional.
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A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her…
