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Cargando... The Tuscan Child (2018)por Rhys Bowen
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book turned out pretty good. I won it off a Goodreads giveaway and knew very little about it, so I was concerned it might turn out to be overly sappy once the story turned to reminiscences about the main character's lousy experiences in the girls' school her family home turned into. But, once she gets to Tuscany the story changes character abruptly and becomes more of a murder mystery, making up for any overly sentimental bits earlier. While not the 'recipes included' type of book, this novel also includes quite a lot of tips about cooking Italian food within the character dialogue, not enough to be overwhelming, but enough to allow readers to feel inspired to make some tasty Italian food to eat while reading. So, I definitely recommend this one to folks who like historical fiction, food-oriented fiction, and light murder mystery. Conflicted. It started as an interesting tale of a woman who never knew the father who just died, but turned into a hidden item mystery, then a murder mystery. Oh, and a bit of romance as well as the alternating chapters between the father as a young Brit pilot shot down in Italy in WW II. That’s a lot of ingredients and while the first two thirds were well done, it just turned into such a mass up that had to tied up in a neat little package that it was disappointing. So the three stars are for the beginning and middle and the rest was frustrating- watching (reading?) the book’s death spiral. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Una carta. Una revelación. Un viaje de descubrimiento. Tras ser alcanzado por el enemigo, Hugo Langley se lanza en paracaídas y acaba en los frondosos campos de la Toscana ocupada por los alemanes. Corre el año 1944 y el piloto, gravemente herido, encuentra refugio en un monasterio en ruinas... y también en los brazos de Sofia Bartoli. Pero el amor que nace entre ambos es blanco de una traición irreversible y Hugo debe volver a su Inglaterra natal. Casi treinta años después, mientras organiza el funeral de Hugo, su hija Joanna encuentra entre sus efectos personales una carta sin abrir dirigida a Sofia, que contiene una asombrosa revelación. A pesar de que la relación entre padre e hija nunca ha sido muy estrecha, Joanna decide embarcarse en un viaje a la Toscana con el fin comprender la historia vital de su progenitor, y quizá también la suya propia. Tardará muy poco en descubrir que hay quienes prefieren no remover el pasado, pero ella ha llegado ya demasiado lejos como para no desenterrar los secretos... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This was a fun fast read with some intrigue to go along with the romance. I loved all the references to food (and definitely want to try to re-create some of those regional dishes that featured so prominently). The conclusion seems a little rushed and too pat for my tastes. But I still enjoyed the book. ( )