‘Santa Montefiore brilliantly captures the intrigue and skulduggery of a country at war in a very absorbing romance.’
Red Magazine
The story begins with the savage murder of an Italian marquis in 1945, then jumps to London in the Swinging Sixties and a beautiful hedonistic girl named Alba. When Alba discovers a portrait of the mother she never knew, her determination to find out more takes her back to the Amalfi coast and into a secret web of wartime intrigue. Santa Montefiore's world of Italian peasants and partisans, Nazis and aristocrats is flamboyant and suspenseful. Anyone who likes Joanne Harris or Mary Wesley will love Montefiore's atmospheric sixth romance
Mail on Sunday, November 6th 2005
