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Return to Valetto / Dominic Smith.

Return to Valetto / Dominic Smith.
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TF1313578 F SMI
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Record Number 21905
ISBN 9781761067273
Item Number 21473260
Location F SMI
Author Smith, Dominic, 1971-, (author).
Title Return to Valetto / Dominic Smith.
Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2023. (28/01/23)
Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2023.
©2023.
Collation 358 pages ; 24 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note 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?
Target Audience Recommended by the Retired Teachers Association of the NSW Teachers Federation.
Subject Australian fiction
Families
Family secrets
Secrecy
Secrecy -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Family secrets -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Geographic Name Italy -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
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