Raising Butterflies

«The wooden house burns in the night like a small volcano erupting in the center of the valley. Bright tongues rise into the black sky among the serene mountains... And in an instant, everything collapses».
The chalet collapses, inexplicably ignited in the middle of the night. The life of one of the women who sent her daughters for a short winter break to this chalet collapses.
Serena has never seen herself in the role of a mother — even after the birth of her daughter. Serena is a «blonde shark», a talented employee of an investment bank, self-sufficient, independent, and no one tells her what to do. But after this night fire, her ordered and prosperous life gradually sinks into an abyss of black nightmare. What is maternal instinct? How did it come to be that it is stronger than anything else in the world? And the contempt of others, and despair. And fate. And fire.
Donato Carrisi is a renowned Italian writer, playwright, and screenwriter, a former lawyer, a specialist in criminology and behavioral sciences, winner of the Italian Bancarella Prize (2009), the French Prix SNCF du polar (2011), and others, author of bestsellers translated into over 40 languages and sold over 20 million copies in total. His new novel «Raising Butterflies», already sold in hundreds of thousands of copies in Italy alone, is a creepy, hypnotic tale of one woman's journey in search of her missing child. An endless dive into the most terrifying, most secret corners of the human soul. Where love lives. Where fears nest. Where monsters hide.