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Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English

QUATTRO ETTI D'AMORE, GRAZIE

Chiara Gamberale

Two women, two worlds apart, two different dreams, but the same supermarket…
Almost every day Erica and Tea meet each other in a small supermarket. Erica is 33. She works in a bank, has a devoted husband and a dazed mother, a Facebook group of old classmates and two growing up children. Tea Fidelibus is the leading actress of the cult TV-series Head or Hart. She has a complex past, a lumbering father, an amazing career, a fascinating but manipulating husband.

Erica buys groceries for her whole family, while Tea limits herself to a couple of vases of fat-free yogurt and sushi. Erica stares at Tea's trolley with envy, dreaming the freedom of being a woman without children, the lightness of such a perfect body, and the passion of a forbidden love. She would never imagine to be an ideal for her own ideal. Tea doesn't even know Erica's name, but she nicknamed her Ms Cunningham. In her, Tea sees the peace she is longing for, and the realisation of a life as a wife and mother.

In an exhilarating series of misunderstandings, Erica and Tea spy at each other, grasping at any detail that means happiness to themselves and that underlines their own pain. It becomes a way to face their own choices without confusing them with the destiny. Which, in the end, will hit both of them anyway….
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Published 2013-03-26 by Mondadori

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Published 2013-03-26 by Mondadori