A House in Sicily by Luisa Adorno Groundswell Speaker 2024 With enchanting line drawings by

With enchanting line drawings by by Peter Bailey

and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower

who severs all familial ties

on Ithaca's rocky shores

Six dangerous outcasts

A House in Sicily by Luisa Adorno Groundswell Speaker 2024 With enchanting line drawings byDuring WWII, a young Tuscan woman falls in love with a man from the rural depths of southern Italy. As the conflict finally draws to a close, the two travel from Rome to finally meet with his family. But very quickly a dawning realisation breaks: her in laws and their friends are eccentric in the extreme. They barely leave the house and they rarely speak to their son, fretting instead about their daughter a loud little dog and worrying constantly,