Belinda Alexandra: 'The Italian Correspondent'

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Join bestselling author Belinda Alexandra as she shares her new novel The Italian Correspondent - a thrilling post-war time mystery.

Past loves are like ghosts. They haunt you forever. The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of The Masterpiece and Tuscan Rose.

I was war-weary, sad and officially divorced - and that was a recipe for recklessness.

Rome, 1951. Veronica Gold is in the city as the correspondent for Vogue magazine. As Italy tries to shake off its dark fascist past and promote itself as the most glamorous nation in Europe, Veronica is trying to forget the horrific memories of her time as a war reporter attached to the Eighth Army at the brutal height of the Second World War.

But just as she hopes to lose herself in la dolce vita, three men appear in her life: Lyle Cooper, her ex-husband and an American diplomat; Marcello Fabbri, an archaeologist and one-time partisan now working in the ruins of Pompeii; and the dashing Count Carlo Durazzo, husband of Veronica's estranged friend, the enigmatic heiress Emerald Evergreen.

Complicated feelings arise, but before Veronica can resolve them, one of these three men is murdered. Veronica is quickly drawn into a sphere of spies and a world on the edge of nuclear war, one where nothing and nobody is quite as they seem.

Books will be available for purchase on the day from Harry Hartog Carindale, or bring your copy from home to be signed. Presented as part of the Lord Mayor’s Writers in Residence series.

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Carindale Library, Westfield Carindale, 1151 Creek Road (near Millennium Boulevard), Carindale