This is a historical novel, set in 1921 in Italy, and deals with a lot of issues between the peasants and the landowners, some of it pretty brutal, and some of it based on actual events. It's also the story of a young Englishwoman, her much older architect husband & her teenage stepson, spending time at the home of one of these landowners. Parts of the story were a little slow going, I thought, and although I am generally a fan of mixed point of view novels, I'm not sure it always worked here. That said, it was definitely a good read, and had a lot to say about that time period, in a part of world I didn't know a lot of specific history of - including the rise of fascism, etc.
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