Livia in Rome
Bruna De Luca
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Extract
If there was a law against treating your own daughter like a foreigner, Ma would’ve been arrested the minute we landed in Rome. First off, she apologizes to the border control officer for my British passport as if I’m a pineapple pizza she’s smuggled into Italy.
Then, the second we’re out of the airport, she turns the hour-long journey to the hospital into one big guided tour – complete with a history lecture on the bus, a trivia marathon on the Metro, and now, as we walk the last stretch, she’s still going.
About the book
A sun-drenched clean teen romance in a vibrant destination setting.
Sixteen-year-old Scottish Italian Livia feels like an outsider, spending the summer in her grandmother’s bar in Rome.
Smug local boy Giulio works there too, and quickly becomes Livia’s nemesis.
She is not going to be the cliché foreign girl who has a summer romance. But as Livia navigates family drama, new-found friendships and . . . Giulio, she starts to see the city – and herself – in a new light.
- Perfect for fans of Love and Gelato, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Anna and the French Kiss.
- Scottish Italian author, Bruna De Luca, draws on her own experiences of growing up as a third culture ‘Scotalian’ kid.
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