At its core, this slowly unfolding narrative is the story of their friendship, though it is also a story of the creation of a family of friends, transplanted from London to Italy: pub owner Col pub worker, amateur singer, and eventual mother Peg pianist Pete elderly friend Cressy child Alys a bright blue parrot, Claude and ultimately, of course, Evelyn. An epic about a family of friends who make the city of Florence their home in the mid-to-late 20th century.Įvelyn Skinner, an art teacher and Englishwoman approaching 64 years of age, meets Ulysses Temper, a 24-year-old private from London, on the side of an Italian road in 1944, while bombs are falling on distant hills.
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