The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: Longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown 2020 for best historical fiction debut

ISBN-13: 9781473686298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 448 str.

Juliet Grames

Opis

If Stella Fortuna means ‘lucky star,’ then life must have a funny sense of humour.Everybody in the Fortuna family knows the story of how the beautiful, fiercely independent Stella, who refused to learn to cook and who swore she would never marry, has escaped death time and time again.From her childhood in Italy, to her adulthood in America, death has seemed to pursue Stella. She has been burned, eviscerated and bludgeoned; she has choked, nearly fallen out of a window, and on one occasion, her life was only saved by a typo.However, even the best-known stories still have secrets to reveal . . . and even after a century, Stella’s is no exception.No woman survives seven or eight deaths without a reason. So, how did she? In a tale which spans nine decades, two continents, and one family’s darkest, deepest-buried truths, the answer awaits.

Recenzje

A compulsive, huge-hearted novel about family, home and how women move through the world; you don't read this book, you live it. Erin Kelly, author of HE SAID/SHE SAID

O autorze

Grames, Juliet
Juliet Grames was born outside of Hartford, Connecticut, into a tight-knit Italian-American family. She attended Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in history from Columbia College. For the last fifteen years she has worked in book publishing, and is currently Associate Publisher at Soho Press, where she edits literary fiction, crime fiction, and literature in translation. She lives in Brooklyn.