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020			_a9781761067273
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082	0	4	_a813.6 _223/eng/20230123
100	1		_aSmith, Dominic, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aReturn to Valetto / _cDominic Smith.
260			_aCrows Nest, NSW : _bAllen & Unwin, _c2023.
300			_a358 pages ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aA nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II. On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village-and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II-centuries of earthquakes, landslides and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain, including the widows Serafino - three eccentric sisters and their steely centenarian mother - who live quietly in their medieval villa. Then their nephew and grandson, Hugh, a historian, returns. But someone else has arrived before him, laying claim to the cottage where Hugh spent his childhood summers. The unwelcome guest is the captivating and no-nonsense Elisa Tomassi, who asserts that the family patriarch, Aldo Serafino, a resistance fighter whom her own family harboured, gave the cottage to them in gratitude. Like so many threads of history, this revelation unravels a secret - a betrayal, a disappearance and an unspeakable act of violence - that has impacted Valetto across generations. Who will answer for the crimes of the past?
648		7	_a1939-1945 _2fast
650		0	_aAustralian fiction. _9206
650		0	_aSecrecy _vFiction. _920804
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction.
650		0	_aFamily secrets _vFiction.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _vFiction.
651		0	_aItaly _xHistory _y20th century _vFiction.
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _930
655		7	_aFiction. _2fast
655		7	_aDomestic fiction. _2lcgft _9230
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