A Postcard from Italy. Alex Brown
Читать онлайн.| Название | A Postcard from Italy |
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| Автор произведения | Alex Brown |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор |
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| Издательство | Зарубежный юмор |
| Год выпуска | 0 |
| isbn | 9780008206673 |
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 2019
Copyright © Alexandra Brown 2019
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Source ISBN: 9780008206666
Ebook Edition © July 2019 ISBN: 9780008206673
Version: 2019-05-16
For all the people who care for other people
‘The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.’
Audrey Hepburn
Contents
Dedication
Betty’s Truly Scrumptious Babka Cake
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.