Early One Morning - Tapa dura

""Early One Morning" heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice in fiction, with a story that is instantly engaging, and characters that effortlessly lift from the page and are rendered so rich and full that they wrap themselves around you and refuse to let go. Beautifully written and emotionally taut, Virginia Baily's "Early One Morning "is a powerhouse of a debut." "Jason Hewitt, author of "The Dynamite Room"""

""Early One Morning" isn't just an incandescent novel, but the rarest of reading experiences, offering a view both wrenching and luminous of how love pushes us past what we're capable of, and somehow-impossibly-reclaims us when we're long past saving. Utterly magnificent." "Paula McLain, author of "The Paris Wife"""

"A fresh approach to this well-worn period." "Julie McDowall, "Independent "(UK)""

"Deeply moving." "Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal"""

"Deeply moving." "Bette-Lee Fox, "Library Journal"""

"A wonderfully moving novel."" "Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News"""

"A wonderfully moving novel.""" "Sherryl Connelly, "New York Daily News"""

"Brilliant." "Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer"""

"Utterly breathtaking." ""Redbook"""

"Brilliant." "Dannye Romine Powell, "Charlotte Observer"""

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.