Love against all odds. A sweeping, romantic, wartime historical novel about love, loss and conflict in an occupied Italian town
It is September 1943 and at the heart of a festa in the hilltop Tuscan town of Barga, seventeen-year-old Scottish-Italian Vita is dancing. Her future seems simple: either she will marry her cousin Joe, or she will become a teacher. Yet when the German and Italian fascist occupation of Barga is challenged by the arrival of the 370th Infantry from the US Army, loyalties are tested and families torn apart.
Frank Chapel is a young, black Buffalo soldier unlike anyone Vita has ever met before. They fall for each other almost instantly, but can their love defy the times and troubles that have brought them together?
The Sound of the Hours is an all-consuming tale of romance and loss. It is at once an intimate and tender portrait of first love and a sweeping evocation of an extraordinary, devastating moment in history.
It is September 1943 and at the heart of a festa in the hilltop Tuscan town of Barga, seventeen-year-old Scottish-Italian Vita is dancing. Her future seems simple: either she will marry her cousin Joe, or she will become a teacher. Yet when the German and Italian fascist occupation of Barga is challenged by the arrival of the 370th Infantry from the US Army, loyalties are tested and families torn apart.
Frank Chapel is a young, black Buffalo soldier unlike anyone Vita has ever met before. They fall for each other almost instantly, but can their love defy the times and troubles that have brought them together?
The Sound of the Hours is an all-consuming tale of romance and loss. It is at once an intimate and tender portrait of first love and a sweeping evocation of an extraordinary, devastating moment in history.
