Description

A novel of war and love, betrayal and redemption. Having developed within an exclusive group of rich British expats in Florence in the 1920s, Alice Orsini shocks everyone when she marries the child of a small German landowner and starts restoring San Martino, a failing apartment in Tuscany, to its former beauty. But after decades of effort, completing the miles with farmhands, livestock, and orchards, Aliceis increasing restlessness draws her in to a careless event that'll have disastrous effects and the heady cultural swirl of war-time Rome. Her indiscretion is observed by cautious eyes—those of Robert Marshall, a dealer of renaissance art.