Last Voyage of the Valentina

Alba Arbuckle, exotically beautiful but desperately unhappy, lives a hedonistic life on a houseboat on the Thames in 1970s London. She hardly knew her Italian mother, Valentina, and her father refuses to speak of her. The discovery of a hidden portrait of Valentina sends Alba on a journey to the olive groves of the Amalfi Coast of Italy to uncover the truth about her mother's past. There, she unearths a mysterious tale of decadence, deception, murder, and betrayal involving partisans, Nazis, peasants, and counts, linked to an unsolved crime at an Italian palazzo at the end of WWII. Alba's investigation into her mother's hidden life ultimately leads her to a new understanding of her own future.

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