| ISBN |
1408707950 (paperback) |
| 9781408707951 (paperback) |
| Name |
Cebeni, Valentina, 1985- author. |
| Uniform title |
Ricetta segreta per un sogno. English |
| Title |
The little Italian bakery / Valentina Cebeni ; translated by Isabelle Kaufeler. |
| Published |
London : Little, Brown, 2018. |
| Description |
345 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
First published in Italy in 2016 as La ricetta segreta per un sogno by Garzanti. |
| Includes recipe. |
| Summary |
The scent of freshly baked biscuits, lemon and aniseed reminds Elettra of her mother's kitchen. But her mother is in a coma, and the family bakery is failing. Elettra is distraught; she has many unanswered questions about her mother's childhood - Edda was a secretive woman. The only clue is a family heirloom: a necklace inscribed with the name of an island. Elettra buys a one-way ticket to that island, just off the coast of Sardinia. Once there, she discovers a community of women, each lost in their own way. They live in a crumbling convent, under threat from the local mayor and his new development plan. It is within the convent's dark corridors and behind its secret doors that Elettra discovers a connection to her mother's past. She also falls in love again: with friendship, baking and adventure. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Italian. |
| Subjects |
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Coma -- Patients -- Fiction |
| Islands -- Italy -- Fiction |
| Bakeries -- Italy -- Fiction |
| Family secrets -- Fiction |
| Female friendship -- Fiction |
| Sardinia (Italy) -- Fiction |
| Other Names |
Kaufeler, Isabelle translator. |
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