Deze auteur verkent complexe relaties en culturele ontmoetingen door haar schrijven. Haar werken weerspiegelen vaak haar eigen gevarieerde levenservaringen, van onconventionele carrièrepaden tot verblijf in het buitenland. Met oog voor detail en scherpe observatie vangt ze de essentie van menselijke interactie en sociale dynamiek. Haar stijl is zowel geestig als meeslepend, waardoor lezers worden getrokken in zorgvuldig gecreëerde werelden.
Hope is a determination to live for what is worth living for today, whatever tomorrow may bring. In the bleakest of times hope may seem beyond our grasp, but David Gee's stirring book helps us to see where we might find it, step-by- step, moment-by-moment, in ourselves, in those alongside us, and in the world around us.
Looking for her wayward son in 1960s Italy, an English widow encounters revelations and begins a dangerous romance.In Venice Lillian Rutherford meets the ex-gigolo who has shared the last four years of Andrew’s life; his disclosures force her to confront a side of her son that she never suspected. Going on to Amalfi, she meets the charismatic Prince Massimo Monfalcone, whose playboy son is being held to ransom in Corsica with Andrew. Massimo distracts Lillian with his life story: his first wife was murdered in a Sicilian blood-feud; his second wife killed herself because of his infidelity. As they wait for news of their sons, a bond grows between Lillian and the Prince...