The Italian Affair

by Julie Ellis

Searching in Italy for her long-lost brother, Lisa meets fellow American Scott Anderson, who says he is looking for a missing friend, Tony Menotti, who resembles Lisa

Genres: Fiction

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Librarians note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

From the inside cover of the Kappa Books edition of Eden:

Julie Ellis was born in Columbus, Georgia. She moved to New York at age 16 with her parents, after her high school graduation. Julie studied drama, and was part of the mid-'50s Off-Broadway scene as actress/playwright/co-producer. Seven of her plays were produced Off-Broadway and presented on the summer hotel/bungalow colony circuits. She wrote 76 sides of children's records (hitting BILLBOARD'S Bestseller List). Her first paperback novel was published in 1960 and between 1960 and 1974 she wrote 143 contemporary, gothic, romantic suspense novels and 3 non-fiction titles that were published by major paperback houses.

Julie has written one hardcover/softcover bestseller per year (a number of early paperback originals now being re-published in hardcover in the United Kingdom). Ellis is published in thirteen countries. A favorite among library readers across the country, Julie regularly appears on LIBRARY JOURNAL'S "Pre-publication Bestseller Lists." In 1993 she made the United Kingdom's Registrar of Public Lending Rights List of the most-read authors in the United Kingdom Library System (minimum of 300,000 loans per author).

A single mother since 1972 (first separated, then widowed), Julie considers her major productions her daughter Susan and her son Richard. Julie is a passionate environmentalist whose convictions appear regularly in her novels (the devastation of our Northwest forests in LOYALTIES, the unnecessary deaths caused by the tobacco industry in LASTING TREASURES, gun control in COMMITMENT). Julie is a vegetarian with occasional lapses due to social circumstances. She alternates between her Manhattan apartment and beach house in Montauk.

Reviews

[Teresa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't usually rate anything so low, but this was one of the worst written books I have ever read. The back of the book looked interesting enough, and the story was intriguing, so of course I had to finish it to know how it ended. And yet, the plot was poorly drawn out. There were presumtuous conclusions thrown in without supporting background information and poor Lisa sounded like a love struck teenage girl swooning over Scott Anderson while running around impetuously trying to find her half-brother. There are plenty of other books to read, put this at the very, very end of your to-read list if you want to read it that badly.

[Amnseia smith]

fun read, mystery, romance