Don't Leave Good for Later

Matilda, the matriarch of the Cabrelli family, has been sharp and confident since her youth. But she never told her family about her mother's story. At the sunset of her life, she realizes that the time has come and the story of the extraordinary woman her mother Domenica was should not fade into oblivion... Domenica grew up in the coastal town of Viareggio, a small provincial town, and from childhood stood out among her peers - for her free-spiritedness, intellect, and desire to break free from the traditional mold set for women. After training as a nurse, she plans to dedicate her life to medicine. But both her plans and the lives of all of Europe are destroyed by the impending war. Domenica's fate will be intertwined with Scotland and with the sea captain John MacVicar, but her heart still belongs to Italy and her beloved Viareggio. A wonderfully rich novel, based on a true story, telling not only about the life of an Italian family but also about the fate of British Italians who became pariahs in their new homeland during World War II. A family saga, a historical novel, the landscapes of the Tuscan coast, and beautiful characters - the new novel by Adriana Trigiani, author of "The Shoemaker's Wife", guarantees a true immersion into an amazing, very beautiful, and quite unusual story that spans almost the entire 20th century.