My House in Umbria
Mrs. Emily Delahunty-a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam-quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while she muses on her checkered past. Then one day her world is changed forever as the train she is riding in is blown up by terrorists. Taken...
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Mrs. Emily Delahunty-a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam-quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while she muses on her checkered past. Then one day her world is changed forever as the train she is riding in is blown up by terrorists. Taken to a local hospital to recuperate, she befriends the other survivors-an elderly English general, an American child, and a German boy-and takes them all to convalesce at her villa, with unforeseen results.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142003657 (0142003654)
Publish date: March 15th 2003
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
This book is set in Umbria, Italy at a somewhat rundown home that Emily Delahunty rents to tourists. This time her lodgers are survivors from a terrorist attack on a train. Emily generously offers them a place to convalesce and grieve. Brought together as strangers, as they begin to recover their la...
blurb - A train journey in Italy sparks devastation, but a new purpose for one passenger - Mrs Delahunty. Stars Prunella Scales.an extra star for the film, which was really lovely.
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