Book description
Produced and directed by Patrick Fraley and Hillary Huber, recorded at Buzzy’s Recording in Los Angeles, music composed and performed by Noel Webb
The Light in the Piazza takes place in Italy in the summer of 1953. Margaret Johnson and her beautiful, twenty-six-year-old daughter, Clara, are touring the Tuscan countryside.…
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This novella is also set in Italy and I love the empathy, the surprises in the story, the setting and the clean prose.
We don’t read enough about people who have mental/intellectual challenges, and Spencer handles this delicate territory with grace. There’s no other love story like this, or at least not one I’ve ever encountered.
I don’t want to give away the plot, but suffice it to say it’s about a mother’s dilemma as her child becomes involved in a love relationship that has some truly unusual aspects. Can be read in a very short time, but then you’ll…
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