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Book SynopsisDark, seductive . . . Noirish and sexy, this provocative novel explores what it's like to be a woman on the edge. Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire
[A] crispy biscotti of a novel . . . You'll feel indecent reading it in public. Molly Young, Vulture
A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex
To cool-headed, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that''s starting to feel like one long decline.
Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece, Hannah. But after years of caregiving, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah''s youthful, heedless worlddrinking, dancing, smokingrelishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. After years of feeling used up and o
