The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre

by Natasha Lester

Val Pellice,

Allies are so busy blaming the Italians for creating our own mess that they don’t really want to help. When they do, it’s a grudging kind of help for a nation they think are fools. We aren’t fools, Alix. I never supported Mussolini. Nor did anyone I know.’

Maybe only the things you can’t have are so beautiful they make your bones melt.’

Ophelia who says, “We know what we are, but know not what we may be”.

‘But I need to finish this, for me. So that the ledger is something I can endure instead of something that defines

me.