Facing impending spinsterhood, educated Englishwoman Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a Midlands Drape-maker, discovers her own passion and sensuality in the fertile landscape of Italy when she meets Cicio, a vaudeville performer and a man of lower social status.

A search for an elusive customer leads a young bookseller to research the complicated history of her family in Rome and how it was shaped by mental illness, a communist murder trial, and devastating wartime losses.

After his brother is killed in Vietnam, Alex Massolini drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family to travel to the small Mediterranean island of Capri, where he finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries.

In Giulia Sagramola's first long-form graphic novel, we follow the story of two sisters, Rachel and Sylvia, as they come of age in a typical Italian town. The two find themselves faced with the tough choices of teenaged life, which mirror the fires in the surrounding hillsides of the town, as one decision or another leads to unsettled feelings and desires. This wonderfully and meticulously illustrated tale takes all of the consternation and heartbreak...

Pippa, a 17-year-old ballet dancer in London, is selected to tour Italy with the ballet company she has recently joined.

Overview: The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other....