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The villa

Initially resistant to her daughter, 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.

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  • "Tres mujeres en busca de respuestas, ¿Villa Sirena acabará por unirlas o las separará para siempre?"@es
  • "Villa"@pl

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  • "Initially resistant to her daughter, 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."@en
  • "Als een jonge vrouw een huis op Sicilië erft, reist ze erheen en doet meer ontdekkingen dan haar lief is."
  • "Set against the rugged coast of Sicily, debut novelist Rosanna Ley creates a lush multi-generational story in The Villa; an epic journey of love lost, family secrets, the road to self-discovery and the meaning of home and family. When Tess Angel receives a letter informing her she has inherited the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily'she is stunned. Her only link to the small beautiful island is through her mother, Flavia, who left Sicily during World War II and has not spoken to her family, or of her life there, since. Initially resistant to Tess traveling to her home country, Flavia begins to recount her youth, told in flashbacks as she writes in a journal to Tess of her journey to independence, as well as leaving her legacy of cherished family recipes and secrets. Secrets including a lost treasure rumored to be hidden in the very Villa Tess is staying at. Told in alternating points-of-view between Tess, Flavia, and Tess' teenage daughter Ginny, dealing with her blooming sexuality and filled with questions that she longs to ask her long-absent father. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "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."
  • "When Tess Angel receives a letter informing her she has inherited the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily, she is stunned. Her only link to the small beautiful island is through her mother, Flavia, who left Sicily during World War II and has not spoken to her family, or of her life there, since. Initially resistant to Tess traveling to her home country, Flavia begins to recount her youth, told in flashbacks as she writes in a journal to Tess of her journey to independence, as well as leaving her legacy of cherished family recipes and secrets. Secrets including a lost treasure rumored to be hidden in the very Villa Tess is staying at. Told in alternating points-of-view between Tess, Flavia, and Tess' teenage daughter Ginny, dealing with her blooming sexuality and filled with questions that she longs to ask her long-absent father."
  • "Initially resistant to her daughter, Tess, going back to her roots, Flavia realizes the secrets from her past are about to be revealed and decides to try to explain her actions."
  • "Initially resistant to her daughter, Tess, going back to her roots, Flavia realizes the secrets from her past are about to be revealed and decides to try to explain her actions."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "General"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl

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  • "The villa"
  • "The villa"@en
  • "The Villa"@en
  • "La villa"
  • "La villa des secrets"
  • "La Villa"@es
  • "Dom na Sycylii"
  • "Dom na Sycylii"@pl

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