Never Again So Close

Where do the pieces of us end up, the ones that we traded for love?

Antonia is ready for her life to start. A young woman from a small town in southern Italy, she wants to pursue her long-held dream of writing a novel. But when she moves to Milan and meets the alluring and charismatic Vittorio, he upends her world and changes her priorities. Their whirlwind relationship is as thrilling as it is painful: he doesn’t share Antonia’s faith in love and can’t reciprocate her feelings.

In the aftermath of their romance, Antonia rediscovers her passion for writing. It’s what she must do in order to get back to herself. Her words have the power to absorb her pain and transform her spirit. Now, she can find her truth―by insisting on it with pen and paper and by being as patient with herself as she is with her fictional characters.

Poignant and beautifully written, Never Again So Close is a story of love, loss, and the profound self-discovery born of a broken heart.

Claudia Serrano has been working as a bookseller in various Italian cities for the past five years. Born in 1984 in the port city of Bari on the Adriatic Sea, she has always had a way with words. A well-respected freelance journalist, Claudia has won many awards, including the Premio di giornalismo Franco Sorrentino for an investigation into the world of the seeing impaired in Bari. She also holds a bachelor of arts degree in modern philology. Never Again So Close is her first novel.