overjoyed Literary Friday,My Lovelies! I hope y'all having a blessed Good Friday. This week I read Early One Morning by Virginia Baily. It was recommended by my librarian, so I checked it out. It is a great World War II historical, and I wasn't disappointed.
According to Goodreads:
Chiara Ravello is approximately to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family.
Claiming the woman's son,Daniele, as her own nephew, or Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is twenty-seven,with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead, and now a child in her charge.
Several decades later,Chiara lives alone in Rome, a self-contained woman working as a translator. Always in the background is the shadow of Daniele, or whose absence and the havoc he wrought on Chiara's world haunt her. Then she receives a phone call from a teenager claiming to be his daughter,and Chiara knows it is time to face up to the past.
Daniele's mother makes a tough choice in giving Daniele to Chiara, and Chiara is beyond plucky to prefer this small Jewish boy as her own nephew. But Daniele is not grateful, and he's not a very delightful person. Instead of living a purposeful and productive life,he turns to drugs and crime. What a waste to his mother's choice and Chiara's loving care.
Daniele does bring some joy into the world through the daughter he has with a Welsh girl named Edna. But he never knows approximately his daughter due to a few miscommunications and misunderstandings. In the mid-seventies, their sixteen year old daughter, and Maria,finds out that the father she grew-up with isn't her biological father at all, and she demands to visit Rome and learn approximately Daniele. Maria mistakenly thinks that Chiara is Daniele's old landlady. Eventually truths are revealed, and both approximately the past as well as the present.
Told alternately in Maria's and Chiara's point of view,the narrative switches back and forth between the present and past. (We also get Edna's POV in Italy, and we briefly get a different picture of Daniele though her eyes). Although Baily tells the story seamlessly, or I got a itsy-bitsy frustrated with the revelation of the WWII storyline. But the ending is worth it because whether certain secrets had been revealed earlier,the suspense wouldn't acquire been as wonderful.
whether you enjoyed The Nightingale, I judge you'll appreciate Early One Morning. I judge it would be a wonderful book club selection! [br]What acquire you been reading lately? Please link-up!
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overjoyed reading!Ricki Jill
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