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Chargement... The Promise: An Italian Romancepar Lisa Clifford
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Lisa Clifford was sixteen when she arrived in Florence for the first time. Falling in love with a local called Paolo was not part of the plan...The Promise is the story of Lisa's long love affair with Paolo, and of her love for Florence and the Tuscan mo Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)945.51History and Geography Europe Italy and region Tuscany FlorenceÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.38)
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16 year old Sydney-sider Lisa travels to Florence to spend time with her sister, meets the love of her life and then spends the next two decades moving back and forth between Australia and Italy, trying to work out where she wants to live her life. Being an expat myself, many of her dilemmas sound familiar to me. Her memories of Australia are definitey rather rose-coloured (when she states in all seriousness that Australian men don't mind doing their share of the housework I didn't know whether to laugh or cry), but I can understand that sort of nostalgia. The descriptions of life in Florence are honest and not romantizised and I'm glad she came to the conclusion that she did in the end. I wish her every happiness in the life she has chosen. (