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Marvellously atmospheric story of strangers summoned to a grand but neglected villa on the Italian coastline. Each of them has been called in a will, but no person is aware of their benefactress.... Four very different people are called in a will. Delia, an opera vocalist robbed of her tone of voice by condition; George, an idealistic scientist who cannot face what his skills have created; Marjorie, frantically poor and struggling to dislodge her writer's block; and Lucius, ostensibly in charge but whose personal life is in chaos. All are summoned to the Villa Dante, home of the overdue Beatrice Malaspina. But who was simply she? While they wait to find out, the villa commences to work its seductive magic. Using its faded frescoes, overgrown garden, and spectacular mediaeval tower, it is unlike anywhere they are before. Gradually four characters who've attended great lengths to hide their troubles discover that change - and even trust - is possible after all. However the incomprehensible Beatrice has a damaging secret to show you that will impact them all.... A lovely evocation of Italy in the aftermath of World Warfare Two and the non-public consequences of coping with such a period and a special event of humankind's capacity to mend and figure out how to love again, this most absorbing novel will gain Elizabeth Edmondson a host of new admirers.
