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Last Voyage of the Valentina
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Last Voyage of the Valentina Trade paperback - 2006

by Santa Montefiore

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Determined to learn the truth about her dead mother--a woman she barely knew--Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy to uncover a mysterious tale of decadence, deception, and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants, and counts, and discovers the gateway to her own happiness.

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Simon & Schuster, June 2006. Trade Paperback. Used - very good.
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  • Title Last Voyage of the Valentina
  • Author Santa Montefiore
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date June 2006
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52928
  • ISBN 9780743276863 / 0743276868
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.32 x 0.94 in (20.27 x 13.51 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Italy
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects London (England), Love stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005057601
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Exotically beautiful but desperately unhappy, Alba lives on a houseboat on the Thames, where she enjoys a life of leisure and entertains an endless and unfulfilling succession of lovers. But then she discovers a portrait of her dead mother, Valentina -- a woman she'd hardly known, whose story has been kept from her by her still grieving father. Determined to learn the truth about Valentina, Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy. There she uncovers a mysterious tale of decadence, deception, murder, and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants and counts. Alba's journey leads her not only to the truth of her mother's hidden past but to the possibility of happiness in her own future.

First line

"She's enjoying the attentions of that young man again," said Viv, standing on the deck of her houseboat.

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Media reviews

"Sensual, sensitive and complex...a passionate page-turning life journey and a dark mystery that sweeps from war-torn Italy to aristocratic 1960s London."
-- Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes

Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2006, Page 19
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/2006, Page 433
  • Library Journal, 04/15/2006, Page 67
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/17/2006, Page 167

About the author

Born in England in 1970, Santa Montefiore grew up in Hampshire. She is married to writer Simon Sebag Montefiore. They live with their two children, Lily and Sasha, in London.

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