The Italian Girl
Written by Lucinda Riley
Narrated by Eva Alexander
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About this audiobook
Lucinda Riley
Lucinda Riley was born in 1965 in Ireland, and after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and continue to strike an emotional chord with all cultures around the world. The Seven Sisters series specifically has become a global phenomenon, creating its own genre, and there are plans to create a seven-season TV series. Her books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Italian Bancarella prize, The Lovely Books award in Germany, and the Romantic Novel of the Year award. In 2020 she received the Dutch Platinum award for sales over 300,000 copies for a single novel in one year – an award last won by J K Rowling for Harry Potter. In collaboration with her son Harry Whittaker, she also devised a series of books for children called the Guardian Angels series, based on stories told to her children whenever they were facing a challenging situation. Harry then wrote the books, and they are now being published internationally. Though she brought up her four children mostly in Norfolk in England, in 2015 she fulfilled her dream of buying a remote farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland, which she always felt was her spiritual home, and indeed this was where her last five books were written. Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and died on June 11th 2021, surrounded by her family.
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Reviews for The Italian Girl
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5***spoilers alert***I love the cover, I did choose the book not because of the cover but the aim to read all of the books written by the writer. Omg, what a drama! Yes, drama and still I read all the book, it's a fast read, loads of dialogues...and important side characters. But the writer has better writing style with the series of Seven Sisters ( I am absolutely not happy that there will be TV series based on the books as I would hate if they ruin the Seven Sisters books...) this is very poor comparison to those, I am happy this is not the first book I read by her as if I would - I would not try to read any other. This book takes place in present time, no two time scale plots - past and present.I have mixed opinions about the book, although it was interesting it was pretty much predictable, and shows the reader the stigma what happens when you grow up and don't get explanations of what happens to your family members. You may be 7 or 11, but when grownups only finds excuses and tells you - you are too young to understand it's a direct way for worst scenarios later on, I mean, seriously, if one doesn't explain the situation, cause, outcome and the solution - how can one learn or try to avoid something like that?The plot has created not only the main focus on Roberto and Rosanna, but also to Rosanna's siblings, parents and her best friend. It is a story about very traditional family who struggles by male- dominant father - all family members are expected to work and live and connect their lives to the restaurant their father owns. The idea is not bad if we think about it but the attitude is, and pf course, it doesn't work and children only dream to collect the money and get away...one way or another. I had trouble with liking the main male character Roberto, the womanizer, who has too weak personality to be a man, let's be honest. He fall in love with her unique voice, he wanted to marry her not because of her personality, but because of his ego-centrism and selfishness that Rosanna will be together with somebody else. Later on as well, the relationship is basically moving on but he is still the same, he doesn't adapt to her needs and mind development, he doesn't get responsible. All world must turn around him - they don't travel back to Italy for years, she is giving up her dreams for him, she is giving up her family and he knows it(!) and still he has balls even to persuade her to travel with him, leaving a sick son at home alone. Roberto has no limits, let's not even mention his cheating activities. But I loved the the final turn of this obsessive relationship.To summon up - it is a read when you are on the way to kill time, it is a read if you are ready for high drama and full of emotions, but I am glad I am not owning my own copy.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another Wonderful read by Lucinda Riley! This is one of the last books on my list of one of my favorite writers. After hearing that she passed away, I truly cried to myself, selfishly knowing that I will truly miss having a new great read. Italian Girl is another great read, so easy to immerge myself in and walk along with the characters and feel the intensity of the emotion of her characters. I had mixed feelings of the main character Roberto I also had a love hate relationship as a reader, but I love Luca, Rosanna, Abby and Steve. Great Love Story of how Love can be so strong that as it nourishes one, it also destroys.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The narrator was exceptional - story is sweet if predictable mainly. Easy listen!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Around 19 years ago, Lucinda Riley published this novel under the name "Aria"; after reading "The Seven Sister", there was a paragraph about this book (in chapter 16 to be exact), so I decided to read it next, not only that it is the oldest one I have but because it was mentioned in the story in Rio, which I loved. Can't wait to devour it!