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Early One Morning
Written by Virginia Baily
Narrated by Jilly Bond
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Two women's decision to save a child during WWII will have powerful reverberations over the years.
Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family.
Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is twenty-seven, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead, and now a child in her charge.
Several decades later, Chiara lives alone in Rome, a self-contained woman working as a translator. Always in the background is the shadow of Daniele, whose absence and the havoc he wrought on Chiara's world haunt her. Then she receives a phone call from a teenager claiming to be his daughter, and Chiara knows it is time to face up to the past.
Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family.
Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is twenty-seven, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead, and now a child in her charge.
Several decades later, Chiara lives alone in Rome, a self-contained woman working as a translator. Always in the background is the shadow of Daniele, whose absence and the havoc he wrought on Chiara's world haunt her. Then she receives a phone call from a teenager claiming to be his daughter, and Chiara knows it is time to face up to the past.
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Reviews for Early One Morning
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed the slowly unraveling story line of this book. It was a different take on the plight of the Jews and the people who did what they could to save even one small child. I only wished for more of a revelation of the character of Daniele, the child at the heart of the story, but then Chiara, the woman who saved him and mothered him, also had difficulty breaking through to him.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book opens with Chiara Ravello ready to leave Rome for the safety of her grandparents' farm. A split second decision saves the life of a young child and changes Chiara's life forever. The story held my interest enough to finish it last night after bed time.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A run of the mill story of the meeting of two strangers on a street in Rome during the second world war and the aftermath 30 years later.It didn't hold my interest as much as I would have liked and I have to confess to skipping pages.The synopsis promised more.I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher Gallic Books via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Early on Morning By Virginia Bailey is a thoroughly engaging and atmospheric book that takes the reader to Rome during WWII as well as the 1970s. Chiara Ravello is a rather interesting, multidimensional character that the reader meets as a translator in Rome during WWII and later in 1970 when history catches up with her in a rather unexpected manner. I would not hesitate to recommend this book to fans of historical fiction.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chiara Ravello rescues a Jewish boy, Daniele Levi, handed over by his mother from the back of a truck, one of many Jews rounded up by the Nazis to be transported to concentration camps en route to a certain death. Chiara sets out to take her sister, Cecilia, and Daniele to safety, away from the dangers of Rome to her grandmother's farm. Life is tough, avoiding Nazi attention, trying to make a good life for Daniele, and dealing with Cecilia's epileptic fits. Cecilia intensely dislikes Daniele referring to him as 'that horrible boy', 'dirty', 'smelly'.Decades later Chiara receives an unexpected phone call, followed by a none too welcome visitor, bringing many unsettling memories to the fore.This was a riveting read
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a story about the love of a mother for her son. It’s not an ordinary bond though; in Rome, Italy in 1943, Chiara Ravello, 27 and single, impulsively rescues a little Jewish boy named Daniele Levi whose family is being taken away by the Nazis. She immediately comes to love this profoundly sad and traumatized boy, who will not even speak for the first few months after Chiara takes him. The story of what happened in 1943 alternates with a story that takes place in 1973, in Cardiff, Wales, where Maria, a 16-year-old girl, accidentally discovers her real father was actually someone named Daniele Levi.Discussion: A lot of what happens is implied rather than stated; there is much more narrative space expended on the preparation of meals and other quotidian pursuits than on the Holocaust in general or on Daniele in particular. And though this is basically a story about Chiara, even an exploration of her character receives a backseat to an evocation of everyday life in Italy.We get very little idea of how Chiara and Daniele got on after 1943 or how they interacted. But in some senses, it wouldn’t have mattered; the defining moment of both of their lives was that day, “early one morning,” when the Nazis were rounding up the Jews in the ghetto of Rome, and Chiara stepped forward to save Daniele. Daniele’s entire family was lost to the gas chambers, and although the author doesn’t say so explicitly, Daniele was clearly consumed by the survivor’s guilt so common to those who happened by fate or luck to have escaped the fate of six million other Jews. [An excellent non-fiction book on this subject is New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust Living in America, by Dorothy Rabinowitz.]As with many other novels, this one explores the idea of what really makes up a family, even in a broader sense than just the relationship between Chiara and Daniele.Evaluation: This is a haunting story that will continue to occupy your thoughts long after you have finished reading it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Audiobook, so it's hard to give a fair review of the text itself. Another book where the brief description skewed my expectation of the story. I had expected there to be more about Danieli, the young boy who was snatched from the line of Jews being sent to the Nazi camps. Instead, the story focuses on the emotions of the woman who saved him and those of the 16yr old girl who has just found out she is his illegitimate son. The tale moves back and forth between current times and war times.The audio version was dramatically read with a strong Italian accent appropriate to the main character. However this meant that the volume varied also--extremely difficult to maintain an appropriate volume setting on my device as I listen to this while driving, and so quite a bit of the book was not heard.