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Angela’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Angela’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Angela Petch
Goodreads Author
Born
in Rinteln, Germany
Member Since
January 2015
History with mystery …
The Lost Garden, out on September 11th, is a little different from my other World War Two historical fiction novels. I’d describe it as history with mystery and a lacing of supernatural.
The principal setting is based on a town near to me, over the border from Tuscany and into Romagna, half an hour’s car drive from where I live each summer. Perched above the town of Sant’Agata Feltria is the most e
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The Tuscan Secret
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The Tuscan Girl
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2020
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The Tuscan House
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2021
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The Postcard from Italy
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A Tuscan Memory
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The Girl Who Escaped
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The Sicilian Secret: Completely gripping and heartbreaking WW2 fiction
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Mavis and Dot
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The Lost Garden
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La chica de la Toscana
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Angela’s Recent Updates
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When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy:
"What do we truly leave behind when we die? Do our lives ‘pass into the stones’ of the homes we dwell in? If they do, should the fragments of those lives, if discovered by those who come after us, be revealed? These are some of the questions perceptiv"
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This is a special book and it really resonated with me. I too have a place in Italy where we go to restore our belief in life and to reconnect. Like the author, we too feel we are only custodians of the home we have rescued from crumbling into nothing ...more |
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In a magazine interview of Michael Morpurgo I read recently he states, “In any story I write, there are two key elements. One is people, the other place.” The Croatian Island Library has both. Eva Glyn takes us on a wonderful trip by catamaran round C ...more |
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This is a special book and it really resonated with me. I too have a place in Italy where we go to restore our belief in life and to reconnect. Like the author, we too feel we are only custodians of the home we have rescued from crumbling into nothing ...more |
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Isabella's Curse: A page-turning dual storyline with a supernatural twist
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| Rosemary Noble always takes us on rollercoasters with emotional, gritty ups and downs. The prologue, set under a “sickle moon” with a “biting easterly wind” coursing through an old ruined church, is shivery, poignant, spellbinding and I was eager to ...more | |
"'The Lost Garden' is a beautifully crafted novel that stayed with me a long time after I finished reading it. I was soon immersed in Italy at the time of the Nazi invasion of the country in WWII and life under Mussolini. I loved the fact that the sto"
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"1939, Castle of Montessecco. At just sixteen, Contessina Ernestina Di Montesecco is weary of the tedious monotony of her life, secluded within the damp walls of her father’s castle, which overlooks the quaint town of Sant'Agnese. One morning, she fol"
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| There are a few #ww2 stories out at the moment about evacuees, orphans and misplaced children but I like the approach in What we Left Behind. The author draws us in with the “slave market” scene in a Welsh village, where “all the best ones have alrea ...more | |
“young believe they will be young forever, and the old have always been old.”
― The Tuscan Secret
― The Tuscan Secret
“They were very dark times for me, but my doctor was a kind woman and she urged me to continue to write down my feelings. And writing did help a little.”
― The Tuscan Secret
― The Tuscan Secret
“How lovely is youth Which is over far too soon! Grab your happiness while you may: There is no certainty in tomorrow.”
― The Tuscan Secret
― The Tuscan Secret
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“Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”
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“Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.”
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