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Review “Well-crafted work with sometime lyrical, sometimes flat-out-funny writing.” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram )“No one ever reads just one of Trigiani’s wonderfully quirky tales. Once you pick up the first, you are hooked..... Trigiani fills her pages with snappy dialogue and luscious descriptions.... Reading Very Valentine is like tucking into a plate of homemade manicotti: irresistible and delicious.” (BookPage )“Trigiani offers plenty of reasons to stick around for part two.” (Kirkus Reviews )“Load up on cappuccino and biscotti before getting lost in the super froth of Adriana Trigiani’s romance-soaked novel, Very Valentine” (Marie Claire )“This genteel and lush tale of soles and souls has loads of charm and will leave readers eager for the sequel.” (Publishers Weekly )“[Very Valentine] will have readers who love romantic novels...swooning. Trigiani’s closing is satisfying, even as it paves the way for the lovable heroine to reappear in a planned sequel.” (Booklist )“Adriana Trigiani listens to her readers, then gives them what they want. That’s why they’ll be ecstatic about her newest novel…” (Richmond Times-Dispatch )“ Sex and the City meets Moonstruck … this first in a new trilogy from Trigiani is sly, sensual and dripping in style.” (People, Lead Review )“Trigiani has certainly not lost her ability to breathe life into everything she writes.” (Roanoke Times )May be [Triginai’s] best work to date… Delightful, energetic… Trigiani is a seemingly effortless storyteller.” (Boston Globe ) About the Author Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning play-wright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker. The author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap series and the bestselling novels Very Valentine; Brava, Valentine; Lucia, Lucia; The Queen of the Big Time; and Rococo , she has also written and will direct the big-screen version of her first novel, Big Stone Gap. Viola in Reel Life, a young adult series for Harper Teen, debuted in September 2009. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
Features & Highlights
- The Angelini Shoe Company, one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village, has been making exquisite wedding shoes since 1903 but now teeters on the brink of financial collapse. To save their business from ruin, thirty-three-year-old Valentine Roncalli—apprentice to and granddaughter of master artisan Teodora Angelini—must bring the family's old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century. Juggling her budding romance with dashing chef Roman Falconi, her duty to her family, and a design challenge presented by a prestigious department store, Valentine returns to Italy with her grandmother in a quest to build a pair of glorious shoes to beat their rivals. And in the course of discovering her true artistic voice and so much more in
- la bella Italia
- , Valentine will be turning her life and the business upside down in ways she never expected.
