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‘You will look after them for me, my poor orphan children.’

Domenica could not hold back the tears. ‘I will Mamma, I promise, do not worry about us. We will be alright.’

Picinisco, Italy 1945: the war may be over, but for Domenica and her family the struggle for survival carries on. Dealing with the cruel legacy of the battle of Monte Cassino, a now parentless seventeen-year-old Domenica finds herself bound by a promise to care for her 5 younger siblings.

Will she be able to provide for them as food grows scarce? Will she hold the family together? Will this promise cost Domenica her own future with the man she loves?

A fictionalised account of real events, Domenica weaves a rural tale full of home truths in the idyllic Abruzzo Apennines. Through a single shepherding family and its strong-willed eldest daughter, Serafina Crolla exposes the human cost of war beyond the battlefield in a poignant depiction of love and grief, pain and union.

Domenica

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    Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
    Publication Date: 30/04/2022
    ISBN13: 9781910022443, 978-1910022443
    ISBN10: 1910022446

    Number of Pages: 192

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    ‘You will look after them for me, my poor orphan children.’

    Domenica could not hold back the tears. ‘I will Mamma, I promise, do not worry about us. We will be alright.’

    Picinisco, Italy 1945: the war may be over, but for Domenica and her family the struggle for survival carries on. Dealing with the cruel legacy of the battle of Monte Cassino, a now parentless seventeen-year-old Domenica finds herself bound by a promise to care for her 5 younger siblings.

    Will she be able to provide for them as food grows scarce? Will she hold the family together? Will this promise cost Domenica her own future with the man she loves?

    A fictionalised account of real events, Domenica weaves a rural tale full of home truths in the idyllic Abruzzo Apennines. Through a single shepherding family and its strong-willed eldest daughter, Serafina Crolla exposes the human cost of war beyond the battlefield in a poignant depiction of love and grief, pain and union.

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