DUE DI NOI

A debut that spreads like a wave in everyone's heart. A story about the magic of that summer when you grow up full of fear and possibility. A novel in which to relive those years that we only now call the best years of our lives.

Alice and Viola are identical twins. Viola came into the world first, Alice followed close behind, clutching her ankle tightly as she was born. They are united by an inexplicable bond and a promise they exchanged as children, clasping pinkies: 'I will never lie to you'. Year after year, despite being two different people, they are indistinguishable to everyone. They have the same friends, go to the same places, have the same habits, hear the same music, have the same dreams. Looking in the mirror, Alice does not know whether she sees herself or her sister reflected. But, in their last year of high school, a sentence that no one has ever said to them comes to upset everything: 'You two are different'. Saying it to Alice at a party is Francesco. A little older than her, Francesco is tormented by a difficult family and has no desire to waste his life brooding. Francesco who will shake Alice's heart and life. In the summer of opposites, between maturity and the months when freedom will have a new flavour, Alice and Viola discover themselves invincibly different. Yet in that diversity, in the disappointments, lies and separations, there will be only one certainty: in the end, those intertwined pinkies will never separate. A story of hope, nostalgia, tenderness, love, until the last breath. A story about friendship and family ties. Camilla Rocca was born in Milan in 1982. She studied Philosophy at Milan University and later in Paris where she lives. She worked for several years as the chief of research programmes at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord. After several academic publications, Due di noi is her first novel.