70% Acrylic 30% Wool

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Camelia is a young Italian woman who lives with her mother in Leeds, a city where it is always December and winter has been underway for such a long time that nobody is old enough to have seen what came before. She's dropped out of university and translates instruction manuals for an Italian washing machine manufacturer; her mother, Livia, spends her days inside taking photographs of holes she finds in the house. Things soon change for Camelia when she meets Wen, a shop owner who teaches her Chinese. This unusual love story is funny, unpredictable and perfectly bittersweet.

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Viola Di Grado was born in Catania, Italy, and currently lives in London. Her first novel,70% Acrylic 30% Wool, was the winner of the 2011 Campiello First Novel Award and a finalist for Italys most prestigious literary prize, The Strega.