‘The Tuscan House’ by Angela Petch is part of a series of four books set in Tuscany. I have read one of them and now this book. It is fine, as I found with the previous book read on its own.
The story alternates between 1947 and the final years of the Second World War. It is told from three characters perspectives Richard, Simonetta and Fosca.
Richard has returned to Corbella in Tuscany from the war, he volunteered as a medical orderly, as he is a Pacifist. He has bought an old tobacco house and is restoring it. Fosca, who used to live in the house during the war and aided the resistance has returned with her son. A body is discovered in the grounds of the house and Fosca is sure it could be Simonetta, a fellow resistance fighter and her friend.
This is a story of people and how they all deal with loss in their own personal way. A touching and sometimes brutal story of determination and hope. There is no secret that I am a history geek and I really enjoy getting swept away in history. Italy is not a country I know much about from the war years and Angela Petch is the author I have learned about Italy and its resistance from mainly. She shows us how the community lived back then and their problems in their lives at this time. I am enjoying learning my history through this writer’s eyes and thorough research.
Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for the copy of the book.
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Many thanks for this review. I am delighted to bring portions of Italian history to you. They have had a rich and dramatic past in Italy.
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