Untold Lessons

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One morning, a teacher disappears into the woods. As whispers fill her classroom and relatives scout the streets, she melts into a wild landscape. This is a darkly entrancing place where boars roam free, silver birches tower overhead, and the air is filled with ancient bird calls. Sinking deeper into a bed of moss and her own memories, the teacher seeks to escape the shocking news of a favourite student's death.Back in town, behind shuttered windows and on factory floors, the mystery takes hold. Who is Silvia really A teacher of rare kindness, living outside of expectations, or a solitary misfit without a family of her own When a local child stumbles upon her hiding place, it seems at first like the search might be over. But what do you do with a missing woman who doesn't want to be foundLushly written and told with a mesmerising intensity, Untold Lessons is a suspense-filled debut about what it means to return to ourselves by an exhilarating new international talent.

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'A mysterious and elegant novel, full of fears and tenderness, where getting lost in the woods can be a choice and a destiny and a regeneration' - Veronica Raimo, author of Lost on Me

'Maddalena Vaglio Tanet captivates us from the very first sentence and then carries us away with her olive-green language, telling through her stirring style the depths of fear and breadth of the human heart. As if Elena Ferrante's heroines had come to the barren northern Italy to find themselves caught between tender longings and bitter disappointments' - Floran Illies

Author Bio

Maddalena Vaglio Tanet studied literature at the University of Pisa and at Columbia University in New York. After several years in Berlin, she recently moved to the Netherlands, where she works as a literary scout. She has published poetry in Italian and German and three children's books. Untold Lessons is her first novel. It was shortlisted for the Strega Prize, the Flaiano Book Prize, the Fiesole Book Prize, and was awarded the Segafredo Prize for a movie adaptation. It is being translated into several languages.