All That is Left of Life

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THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION

On a summer just like any other, a family's perfect life is shattered forever in a sleepy seaside town near Rome.

Miriam vows to tell no one - not her cold mother, her devastated aunt nor the police - what really happened the night before her cousin Betta's body was found. A storm has washed away all evidence, and with no witnesses, the Ansaldo family and the memory of Betta are thrust into a world of public scrutiny. Without a thread of hope to pull them through their insurmountable grief, the foundations of their family threaten to fall apart.

Self-medicating to ease the burden of her secret, Miriam finds herself in the company of a young drug dealer, Leo, and with a set of unlikely new friends. But as he becomes embroiled in the mystery of the violence Miriam refuses to divulge, will Leo's quest for answers shine a light through the family's despair or plunge them further into its dark

The beautifully layered Italian bestseller, All That is Left of Life is a brilliant mediation on love, loss, resilience and hope which asks how we carry on in the face of tragedy, perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante and Isabel Allende.

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Born in Rome in 1972, Roberta Rossella Recchia graduated in European and American Languages and Literature. She lived for a time in Lille, France, where she earned a master's degree in Relations Interculturelles et Cooperation Internationale. She worked for ten years for a big company and then quit office work to devote herself to teaching. She currently teaches English in a high school in Rome. She is passionate about film and literature, especially Russian and French. She lives with her chihuahua, Claudio, in a small town on the coast of Lazio.

Antonella Lettieri is a London-based translator with over ten years of experience working into English and Italian. She was the 2023 NCW Emerging Translator Mentee for Italian and was awarded first prize in the 2023 John Dryden Translation.