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The Only One Left has a lot of twists and turns that kept me reading. I had checked out several reader reviews before picking up the book, and I was on high alert to look for clues as the story unfolded. I only guessed a few — a very few — and enjoyed every page and the surprises along the way. This is Gothic Suspense at its best. And it also shows you don’t need to include explicit sex or graphic violence to spice up a book. A great story wins every time. This one is a page-turner.
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Seamstress in Sardinia combines sewing and Italian women’s history in a way that fully captured my interest. The novel takes place in the late 1800s and early 1900s and revolves around a seamstress who relates the story of her life. Through her reminiscences, the reader gains an understanding of the strict parameters that governed women’s lives in that time and place.
Each chapter is a mini story of a different woman’s life as seen through the eyes of the seamstress as she tells her own story. The novel is based in historical fact. Modern readers may find it hard to understand how little freedom these women had.
Many readers today know little about Italian women’s true history. Stereotypes abound. This novel shows what life was really like. The story in Seamstress in Sardinia also unfolded all over rural southern Italy and in Sicily. It reflects what I learned from my…
A bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, family, romance, and fashion that is set on the island of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth century—a dazzling and original literary blend of Jane Austen and Adriana Trigiani.
In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman’s remarkable talent with a needle earns her a position as a seamstress with a wealthy family. Inside this privileged world far different from her own humble beginnings, the skilled sewer quietly takes measurements, sketches designs, mends hems—and in the silence, hears whispered secrets and stories of all those around her.…
