Last Voyage of the Valentina

Description

Set in London during the swinging sixties and Italy’s Amalfi coast after Word War II, Last Voyage of the Valentina is an epic romance with a dark uncercurrent of suspense from an author the Daily Mail (UK) has declared “is the new Rosamunde Pilcher.”Exotically beautiful but desperately unhappy, Alba lives on a houseboat on the Thames, where she enjoys a life of leisure and entertains an endless and unfulfilling succession of lovers. But then she discovers a portrait of her dead mother, Valentina–a woman she’d hardly known, whose story has been kept from her by her still grieving father. Determined to learn the truth about Valentina, Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy. There she uncovers a mysterious tale of decadence, deception, murder, and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants, and counts. Alba’s journey leads her not only to the truth of her mother’s hidden past but to the possibility of happiness in her own future.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Santa Montefiore
Published: 06/06/2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780743276863
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 0.94″ H x 7.98″ L x 5.32″ W

About the Author
Santa Montefiore is the number one bestselling author of more than thirty novels and has sold over eight million copies worldwide. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages, and she won a Romantic Novelists’ Association Award for The Temptation of Gracie in 2019, which is currently in development for film. Born in England in 1970, she grew up in Hampshire and now lives in London with her husband, writer Simon Sebag Montefiore, their daughter Lilochka, son Sasha, and dog Simba. Shadows in the Moonlight is the first novel of a planned trilogy following the character Pixie Tate. Visit her at SantaMontefiore.co.uk and connect with her on Facebook @SantaMontefioreBooks or on Instagram @SantaMontefioreOfficial.