This is the actual letter that the author, the daughter of the architect Macdonald Gill, wrote to her parents in the summer of 1944. When Italy entered the war, she was living and studying music in Rome which meant that she, her husband and their best friend, a celebrated Jewish opera singer, went into hiding. Not a literary masterpiece but a haunting account of their deprivations, adventures and the love triangle that eventually divided them.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 30 June 2005 ) |
