Adriana Trigiani

It is now eight years since Ave Maria Mulligan married Jack Chesney. Whilst she has thrown herself into life with a family, events from the past seem to throw a barrier between her and Jack. Whatever their problems they always have the support of the people of Big Stone Gap.  Book 2 of series

This is the story of a local pharmacist, Ave Maria Mulligan, who has been keeping the townsfolk's secrets for years. She is about to discover a scandal in her own family's past that will blow the lid right off her quiet, uneventful life.  Book 1 of series.

Proud grandmother Matelda Cabrelli always has something to say. But, as she faces the end of her life, she worries she's failed to tell the stories that matter. Most of all, she finds herself needing to tell the tale of her mother Domenica's two great loves.

First, Domenica's childhood sweetheart: a boy from her own small coastal town of Viareggio. Second, a mysterious Captain: an infatuation forged in the midst of WW2, and the father Matelda never knew.

Now, before her time runs out, it falls to Matelda to tell Domenica's story. And for the Cabrelli women to unpick the mysteries, passions and tragedies that sent Domenica away from Italy - then brought her home again...

Ave Maria is left to cope with major changes as her daughter Etta begins her new life in Italy. Then the appearance of a mysterious stranger rocks her world to its core, forcing her to face the past in order to build a new life.  Book 4 of series.

Lucia Sartori is the most beautiful girl in Greenwich Village, with a glamorous job in a Fifth Avenue store. Though never short of suitors she is not prepared to swap her satisfying career for the role of wife and mother. Until, that is, a handsome stranger comes into her life! Richard & Judy Bookclub.

Roseta, Pennsylvania, is populated by a group of Italians who emigrated en masse from a village near Bari in the late 1800s. The residents re-created their former lives in their new country. Farmer's daughter, Nella, aspires to a genteel town life, until she meets the poet renato Lanzara.

High in the Italian Alps lies Vilminore, home to Ciro, a mountain boy. Close by lives Enza, a practical girl who longs only for a happy life for her family. When the two meet as teenagers, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever…

For more than one hundred years, the Angelini Shoe Company in Greenwich Village has relied on the leather produced by Vechiarelli & Son in Tuscany. This ancient business partnership provides a twist of fate for Valentine Roncalli, the schoolteacher-turned-shoemaker, to fall in love with Gianluca Vechiarelli, a tanner with a complex past . . . and a secret.

The Angelini Shoe Company, run so devotedly by Valentine and her grandmother Teodora, faces financial ruin. Juggling a romantic relationship with a dashing chef, her duty to her family, and a design competition for a prestigious department store, Valentine accompanies her grandmother to Italy in the hope of finding inspiration.

Lake Como, New Jersey: Jess Capodimonte Baratta is not living the life she dreamed of. Divorced and residing in her parents' basement, the most joy she finds in life is helping her Uncle Louie with his marble business. But when things take a turn in Louie's life, and family secrets come to light, Jess learns that her family made choices over the years - choices that stifled her dreams. Furious, and determined to start living, Jess heads off on an adventure - to her family's ancestral home.

In Italy, Jess begins to stand on her own two feet for the first time in her life. And that's before dreamy Angelo enters the picture. But just as Jess is finding happiness, she learns there is even more to her family story.

Will the hidden corners of Uncle Louie's past send Jess back to New Jersey? Or help her finally get to live life on her own terms.

Adriana Trigiani's two remarkable grandmothers, Lucia and Viola, lived through the 20th century from beginning to end as working women who juggled careers and motherhood. Trigiani visits the past to seek answers to the essential questions that define the challenges women face today.