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"engaging relationship drama"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 2, 2002

Thirty-eight year old divorcee Gemma Jericho works extremely hard as resident in charge of Bellevue Hospital Trauma Department as there is never a void of customers. She also feels like the sandwich generation struggling between her mom Nonna and her third generation American teen Livvie. Nonna receives a letter from Read more...

"A Light and Enjoyable Read"
Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted October 20, 2002

Gemma Jericho is a doctor in a trauma unit, overworked and running on adrenaline most of the time. She has a teenage daughter, Livvie, and mother, Nonna, all living together in New York. Livvie is a modern teen with two-tone colored hair and wild clothes although Gemma Read more...

Summary

Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a mother who worries that Gemma has no life. So when her mother receives a mysterious letter telling her about an even more mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, Gemma sees her chance: the three of them throw caution and convention to the wind and leave for Italy. Gemma hopes that a change of scenery will bring back the closeness she used to share with her daughter. And perhaps the challenges of living in a foreign country will give her mother something to worry about beyond Gemma's social life. But what they encounter there is far more distracting than Gemma expected: a crumbling old villa and a town divided. Half the residents believe that Ben Raphael, another American, is the rightful inheritor of the villa. As cultures clash, gossip soars, and intrigue unfolds, Gemma is caught up in the most disturbing and delicious trouble she's ever had. And her summer in Tuscany will change her outlook-and her life-forever.