Description
The author of Alexa’s Vineyard, described by the Mail on Sunday as ‘enjoyable and engrossing’, has written an enthralling story of an English artist in Italy.
Isobel Jefferson is six feet tall, seventeen years old and convinced that she has neither talent nor importance when she first comes to Italy as an au pair. But her new home becomes a prison: Isobel is in the power of her employer, Nina Fischer, a madwoman with a past so terrible that even her victim cannot hate her.
Isobel is rescued by kind friends who introduce her to the true Italy and transform her from an awkward schoolgirl into a beautiful woman. Soon she has become one of the most eligible girls in Milan, and soon after, the wife of a rich and loving young man. It seems that Isobel’s story will have a happy ending – until Nina Fischer comes back into her life, and destroys her happiness once more…
Set in Milan, England and finally Venice, the story of how Isobel overcomes the insurmountable obstacles in her way to find herself – as a woman, a mother and finally as an artist – is both unforgettable and deeply moving.
Hardcover
384 pages
Good preloved condition.