Clio Lambert's first encounter with bestselling author Paul Costello is not an auspicious one. He seems an arrogant, demanding man, used to getting his own way. But when he offers her a job as his editorial assistant, working on a book about Italy during the Second World War, Clio cannot resist, for it will entail a prolonged stay in Rome. With no dependents other than three elderly relatives living in the cathedral town of Wells, it seems an offer too good to refuse. Comfortably ensconced in a small pensione, Clio prepares to enjoy her Roman spring. Though Costello's extended Italian family are not unanimously welcoming, she is befriended by his cousin Luigi di Palma, who takes it upon himself to show her the city's sights. But as Clio and Paul start to delve deeper into the history of Italy's Partisans ? and the role of the di Palma family during that painful period of its history ? it becomes clear that her job will be much more challenging, and more personal, than she had ever anticipated.
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Stewart is a gifted storyteller whose heartwarming romances are reminiscent of Pilcher, Binchy, and Cookson. Her latest has thirtysomething Clio Lambert taking a job in Rome, assisting writer Paul Costello with research for a nonfiction book on post-WWII Italy, particularly as it affected Costello's Italian relatives. Costello is a sarcastic, demanding boss, and Clio is a stubborn, somewhat opinionated employee, but somehow the two manage to work together well enough. And Clio, who speaks fluent Italian, loves Rome. What she doesn't expect is to discover there, purely by chance, the grave of her long-dead grandmother, who left a husband and young son, Clio's father, to return to Rome following WWII and search for the lover she met during the war. Her family never heard from her again, and Clio is determined to find out what really happened to her in the intervening years. What she discovers is both sad and disturbing, but equally disturbing are the strange feelings that the determined-to-remain-single Clio is developing for her curmudgeonly boss. A touching and emotion-filled old-school romance. Emily Melton
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Sally Stewart, born a Londoner but now happily settled with her husband amid the green hills of Somerset, has written numerous short and full-length stories. Many of them reflect her love of history, or were born of places visited in the course of foreign travels.
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