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Childhood sweethearts, Emilio and Rosa are engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a prisoner of war. Emilio is inspired by the idea of building a chapel on the barren island. The prisoners band together to transform a derelict hut with little more than salvaged odds and ends. The chapel gradually takes shape, vivid frescoes line the walls. While Emilio's chapel will remain long after the POW camp has been disbanded, will his love for Rosa survive the hardships of war and separation? Rosa is no longer the girl he left behind. Life has changed, and nothing will be the same again.

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An impressive debut novel follows, in gently paced flashbacks, a young Italian couple's experience of WWII. An accomplished artist and painter of church statues and frescos, Emilio suffers as a soldier and a prisoner of war in North Africa until he is shipped to a labor camp in the isolated Orkney Islands in Scotland. There he finds a rough camaraderie with fellow soldiers as they rebel against the strict discipline and eventually draw together to build a Catholic chapel out of scraps of construction material. Left behind, the teenaged Rosa finds purpose working for partisans in the city and in sheltering refugees at her mother's country hotel. Emilio's acceptance of his lot in wartime contrasts with Rosa's desire to grow and explore and the bitter helplessness she feels in the face of German ruthlessness. Though slow going at first, with the framing chapters unfortunately removing any suspense about the couple's fate (the story opens with Emilio and Rosa as long marrieds), the development of Emilio's and Rosa's separate paths is engaging, and the fictionalized true story of the Italian Chapel in the Orkneys genuinely captivating. (Jan.)
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  • PublisherHodder Ome
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 1848543565
  • ISBN 13 9781848543560
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