Really recommend this book – thanks Rosie for organising the book review team!
Today we have a review from team member Alison, she blogs at https://alisonwilliamswriting.wordpress.com/
Alison chose to read and review The Song Of The Cypress by Tonia Parronchi
The Song of the Cypress by Tonia Parronchi
Ann is a woman who is only half alive, caring for a mother who has sunk into depression and illness since the death of her husband, leaving Ann to a lonely childhood and a miserable adulthood. Her mother’s death offers the chance of a fresh start and Ann dreams of the cypress on the night before her mother’s funeral.
Ann travels to Tuscany, and in a small village finds the cypress. She begins her transformation, embracing her new life and her neighbours, the chatty Lucia and Pietro, Lucia’s quiet husband, hard-working put upon Rita and, of course, gentle, handsome Joe.
She also encounters the strange, wild, carefree old woman Fiammetta, the white witch, who teaches…
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