A Postcard from Italy. Alex Brown
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Source ISBN: 9780008206666
Ebook Edition © July 2019 ISBN: 9780008206673
Version: 2019-05-16
For all the people who care for other people
‘The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.’
Audrey Hepburn
Contents
Dedication
Betty’s Truly Scrumptious Babka Cake
Tindledale, in rural England, 1939
The flip of a coin is all it had taken to seal seventeen-year-old Constance Levine’s fate.
‘Heads, she goes to Aunt Rachael in Manhattan,’ her mother had declared, barely able to even look at her ‘wanton’ daughter, the word she had used on first discovering Connie’s condition.
Manhattan.