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PeriodicalLarge Print Book
Author Ley, Rosanna, author.

Title The villa / Rosanna Ley.

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
©2012

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  LP LEY, R.    Check Shelf
Edition Large Print edition.
Description 653 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Series Thorndike Press large print women's fiction
Thorndike Press large print women's fiction series.
Summary When Tess Angel receives a solicitor's letter inviting her to claim her inheritance -- the dilapidated but beautiful Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily -- she is stunned. Her only link to the island is through her mother, Flavia, who left Sicily following World War II and cut all contact with her family. Could this be Tess's chance to find out why? Initially resistant to Tess going back to her roots, Flavia realises the secrets from her past are about to be revealed and decides to try to explain her actions. She compiles a book of her family's traditional Sicilian recipes as a legacy to pass on to her daughter and tells her story which began in the summer of 1944 when she rescued an injured English pilot in the countryside near her home in Cetaria and helped nurse him back to health. Meanwhile, Tess's teenage daughter Ginny has lost her sense of direction. She is stressed by college and by her blossoming sexuality and consumed by questions that she longs to ask her father -- if only she knew where he was. There is also a mystery attached to The Mermaid's Villa concerning the missing Il Tesoro. What is this treasure and what does it have to do with her family? Tess must navigate a way through the prejudices of Sicilian history and the opposition of her family's enemies in order to find out.
Subject Sicily (Italy) -- Fiction.
Large type books.
FICTION / Contemporary Women.
Genre/Form Large type books.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Subject Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Italy -- Sicily. (OCoLC)fst01204499
ISBN 9781410477019 (large print : hardback)
1410477010 (large print : hardcover)
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