A Postcard from Italy. Alex Brown

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Название A Postcard from Italy
Автор произведения Alex Brown
Жанр Зарубежный юмор
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Издательство Зарубежный юмор
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9780008206673



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       Copyright

      HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 2019

      Copyright © Alexandra Brown 2019

      Cover design by Ellie Game © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019

      Cover photographs © Evelina Kremsdorf/Arcangel (Landscape, front), Shutterstock.com (Stamps, flowers and back cover)

      Alexandra Brown asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008206666

      Ebook Edition © July 2019 ISBN: 9780008206673

      Version: 2019-05-16

       Dedication

      For all the people who care for other people

       Epigraph

       ‘The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.’

      Audrey Hepburn

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Dedication

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgments

       Betty’s Truly Scrumptious Babka Cake

       Read on for a Q&A with Alex …

       About the Author

       Keep Reading …

       Also by Alex Brown

       About the Publisher

       PROLOGUE

       Tindledale, in rural England, 1939

      The flip of a coin is all it had taken to seal seventeen-year-old Constance Levine’s fate.

      ‘Heads, she goes to Aunt Rachael in Manhattan,’ her mother had declared, barely able to even look at her ‘wanton’ daughter, the word she had used on first discovering Connie’s condition.

      Manhattan.