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The conclusion to this trilogy. Jessica teams up with the boys for a time and Sam finally confronts the yellow eyed demon.
The conclusion to this trilogy. Jessica teams up with the boys for a time and Sam finally confronts the yellow eyed demon.
When Annie Harper’s best friend Marissa calls her from Oahu to tell her that she has found their high school crush while on vacation, Annie heads to the island post haste to keep her friend from doing something stupid. Little does Annie know that it is a decision that will change his life and force her to confront her worst insecurities. If they can keep it together, the future is looking to be a happy one.
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1/10: Rome 1943. A split-second decision is about to change Chiara's life forever. 2/10: Rome 1943: Chiara has to flee Rome with the Jewish boy she is sheltering. 3/10: Chiara leaves Rome for the countryside with her charge, Daniele. 4/10: Chiara has to learn how to be a mother 5/10: Chiara prepares to host Welsh teenager who claims to be Daniele's daughter. 6/10: Italy 1943. Chiara and Cecilia are living with their grandmother in a remote farmhouse, where they shelter passing deserters and Daniele, the small Jewish boy Chiara saved from the Nazis. 7/10: Italy 1943. A Nazi officer officer arrives at the remote farmhouse where Chiara is hiding her young Jewish charge, Daniele. Thirty years later, in Rome 1973, Chiara is showing Welsh teenager, Maria, around Rome. Maria believes that Chiara is Daniele's former landlady and knows nothing about Daniele's past, or that Chiara has not seen her troubled adoptive son in over a decade. 8/10: Italy 1944. Chiara and her young Jewish charge, Daniele, are back in Rome, where food supplies are scarce. Thirty years later, in 1973, Chiara struggles to know what to say to Daniele's daughter, a Welsh teenager called Maria, who is staying with her over the summer. Maria knows nothing of Daniele's past, nor that Chiara has not been in touch with her troubled, adoptive son in over a decade. 9/10: 1944. As American soldiers parade through Rome, Chiara receives some devastating news. 1973. Chiara confides in her oldest friend about her dilemma over Daniele's teenage daughter, Maria, who doesn't yet know anything about her father's past. 10/10: Rome 1973. With Simone's encouragement, Chiara determines to tell Maria the truth about Daniele and confront her own past.
Set in Rome, both during the Second World War and in the nineteen seventies, Early One Morning is the story of Chiara Ravello, a young woman, who witnesses the Jews being rounded up and driven away from the Trastevere Ghetto and who, on impulse, persuades the supervising soldiers that a mistake has been made and that one of the children is really her nephew, thereby saving him from the fate to which the rest of his family are consigned.
But this is not another Holocaust story. It is actually concerned with what happens next: the implications of this terrifying decision for Chiara herself, for her disabled sister Cecilia, for Daniele, the boy she impetuously decided to rescue and, thirty years after the event, for a sixteen year old Welsh girl called Maria whose world is about to be turned upside down by the discovery that she is not the person she has always thought herself to be.
Virginia Bailey's writing is beautifully observed. The evocation of Rome - its sights, smells sounds, even its weather - is extraordinarily vivid. It is the next best thing to actually being there. But what gives this book its compelling emotional core is the story of Chiara's fiercely protective love for the angry, uncommunicative little boy she has adopted. This is the story of parenthood writ large.
Funny, heart-breaking, compassionate, Early One Morning is undoubtedly the best book I have read in 2015 and I suspect the experience of reading it will remain with me for a very long time.
I don't mind waking up early even though I not working today. That just means that I can lie on sofa reading the whole morning...
