The Garden of Letters Audiobook (Free)
- Elizabeth Sastre
- 11 h 6 min
- Penguin Audio
- 2014-09-02
Summary:
THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LOST WIFE
Arranged against the high backdrop of World Battle II Italy, Garden of Letters catches the wish, suspense, and romance of the uncertain era, within an epic intertwining story of first like, great tragedy, and spectacular bravery.
Portofino, Italy, 1943. A woman measures off a motorboat within a scenic coastal town. Although she knows how to vanish in a group, Elodie is too terrified to slide by the German officials while carrying her about The Garden of Letters poorly forged identity documents. She is frozen until a guy she’s never met before claims to learn her. In eager want of shelter, Elodie comes after him back to his house in the cliffs of Portofino.
Only months just before, Elodie Bertolotti was a cello prodigy in Verona, unconcerned with world events. But when Mussolini’s Fascist regime strikes her family members, Elodie is attracted into the burgeoning resistance movement by Luca, a young and impassioned bookseller. As the profession looms, she discovers that her exclusive musical abilities, and her courage, have the power to save lives.
In Portofino, youthful doctor Angelo Rosselli provides frightened and tired girl sanctuary. He’s a man with painful secrets of his very own, haunted by guilt and remorse. But Elodie’s arrival has the capacity to awaken a feeling of wish and pleasure that Angelo thought was dropped to him permanently.