Louise Croft

Broschiertes Buch

The Edge of Life

Beschreibung

1942, Italy, at war fighting with the Germans, against the Allied forces. The Allies have vanquished the Germans in Sicily and have invaded the beaches of Sorrento, south of Naples. The city has been destroyed by the powerful eruption of Mount Vesuvius and Allied bombing raids. A young Italian girl escapes being shot by the Germans when her Puglia village is invaded. Elena struggles alone across the barren foot of Italy to Naples, surviving rape attempts and attacks by feral street children. She finds temporary shelter in a cave outside Naples and tries to move on with her life.

Autor

Louise Croft lived for 10 years with her husband in a small village in the Tarn on the borders of the Aveyron River in France. Their home was 300 years old. "It was a life-changing experience, speaking French daily, absorbing the customs of country life, and making local friends," describes Louise Croft. Details of the various markets, fetes, and vide greniers (bric-a-brac), hunting in the forests, and shooting the rats (loires) described in this novel are real events that she shared. She has had the opportunity to live in 7 countries and work in 16. She emigrated alone from England to Australia in April 1989 with the Government Business Migration Scheme. She established an IT consultancy providing document management services for mining, engineering, oil and gas industries, as well as the federal and the State Governments. She wrote and self-published her first novel, 'The Edge of Life', in 2020. It is based on the real experience of an Italian woman living in Puglia during World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Linellen Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781922343499
• ISBN-10: 1922343498
• Artikelnr.: 60901188