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21905
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9781761067273
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21473260
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Smith, Dominic, 1971-, (author).
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Return to Valetto / Dominic Smith.
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Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2023. (28/01/23)
Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2023.
©2023.
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358 pages ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II. On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village-and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II-centuries of earthquakes, landslides and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain, including the widows Serafino - three eccentric sisters and their steely centenarian mother - who live quietly in their medieval villa. Then their nephew and grandson, Hugh, a historian, returns. But someone else has arrived before him, laying claim to the cottage where Hugh spent his childhood summers. The unwelcome guest is the captivating and no-nonsense Elisa Tomassi, who asserts that the family patriarch, Aldo Serafino, a resistance fighter whom her own family harboured, gave the cottage to them in gratitude. Like so many threads of history, this revelation unravels a secret - a betrayal, a disappearance and an unspeakable act of violence - that has impacted Valetto across generations. Who will answer for the crimes of the past?
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Recommended by the Retired Teachers Association of the NSW Teachers Federation.
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Australian fiction
Families
Family secrets
Secrecy
Secrecy -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Family secrets -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
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Italy -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
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