Forbidden Notebook / Alba de Céspedes ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein ; with a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri.

By:

De Céspedes, Alba [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextDescription: 259 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9781782278221

Subject(s):

Historical fiction

DDC classification:

853.914 CES

Summary: Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She keeps a diary in secret, recording her worries about her children, fears her husband will find her up late writing and the constant churn of the domestic routine. With each entry she plunges deeper into her interior life, and the roles that have come to define her - as wife, as mother, as daughter - begin to break apart

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Acquisition, Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution Development	Fiction	853.914 CES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B232542

Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She keeps a diary in secret, recording her worries about her children, fears her husband will find her up late writing and the constant churn of the domestic routine. With each entry she plunges deeper into her interior life, and the roles that have come to define her - as wife, as mother, as daughter - begin to break apart

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Forbidden Notebook / Alba de Céspedes ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein ; with a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri.