QUELLO CHE POSSIEDI

An intense story of female rebellion and redemption. A poignant portrait of a city and a society that, the more it sees its certainties crumble, the more it clings to its habits and ceremonies.

Clotilde Brunori Princi is eighty-two years old and as elegant, impeccable and eccentric as she has always been: time and illness have faded her beauty, but not her temperament. Her daughter Olivia is in the midst of a mid-life crisis: she is a vegetarian, obsessed with physical fitness, who runs to avoid thinking about her own life caught in a dead end, between an increasingly distant husband, her grown-up children and her difficult mother. One autumn morning Clotilde disappears from Villa del Grifo, the family home in the hills of Florence. This is not one of the short, frequent car trips she used to make when she was young, which were always a popular topic of conversation among the patrons of the Tre Vie tobacco bar. No one knows that her new journey has to do with a painful past event in her life, which has been hidden behind the golden veneer of a privileged existence for all these years. But what you own ends up owning you: as the end approaches, Clotilde is forced to face her demons, and Olivia finds herself caught up in the quest for the truth. It is up to her to choose whether to continue on the path of submission and denial or to take her fate into her own hands, to prove to herself first and foremost that everyone can write their own future. A captivating novel that investigates the meaning of guilt, duty, consent and freedom. What lies behind the beauty of Tuscan hills? Journalist and novelist, Caterina Soffici lives between London and Italy. She is a cultural and current affairs writer for La Stampa. She writes for several dailies, weeklies as well as TV and radio programs. In 2010, she moved to London with her family. Feltrinelli has published Ma le donne no (2010), Italia yes Italia no. Che cosa capisci del nostro paesese vivi a Londra (2014) and Nessuno può fermarmi (2017).